Meaningful Quotes

There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

The thought content of ghazals must be meaningful, related to life, it’s emotions of joy and sorrow. It must have the human touch, it should not be phoney.

This is my one and only life and it's a great and terrible and short and endless thing and none of us come out of it alive.

I understand that a man can have everything having nothing and nothing having everything.

Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.

Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.

The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.

Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one...

Mandy because that was the most meaningful relationship.

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

Reality is something you rise above.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.

It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

Don't be afraid to be amazing.

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.

The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice.

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

Live today as if you were going to live forever, for you surely shall.

Not knowing how near the truth is, we seek it far away.

That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

I am not a has-been. I am a will-be.

I'm more trying to connect; I'm more listening to people. Whatever I get is very meaningful to me.

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

Nine different people gathered and became like a family. To me, it is a very meaningful tie.

A warrior feeds his body well; he trains it; works on it. Where he lacks knowledge, he studies. But above all he must believe. He must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul.

Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is.

The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds

Simply being with other people who are also seekers and who are involved in the same quest you are is very meaningful.

I will not be labelled as average.

You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories.

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

The goal of forecasting is not to predict the future but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present

Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

Meaningless yards are not meaningful.

I am willing to let go. I release others to experience whatever is meaningful to them, and I am free to create that which is meaningful to me.

If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light

The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

Look everywhere you can to cut a little bit from your expenses. It will all add up to a meaningful sum.

This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth.