Meaningful Quotes

I will consider my time in the Senate a failure if we don't pass some meaningful legislation to reduce the likelihood that Sandy Hook ever happens again.

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

Life has its own flavor.

Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.

A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within, once you find your center, you are sure to win.

The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

To strengthen our relationship with God, we need some meaningful time alone with Him

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

Focusing on one thing without interruption is how you get meaningful work done.

One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.

L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

Mentally prepare ourselves for excellence...block out the noise of everyday distractions and tap into the quietness of meaningful focus, intent and a winning mindset.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.

Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you.

My interest in fragrance is really a personal thing. I've always gravitated toward them and appreciate the subtle, meaningful way they express who you are.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all.

The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

Why is life at this point in the twentieth century so focused upon the very beginning of life and the very end of life? What about the 80 years we have to live between those two inexorable bookends?

The joy is in creating, not maintaining.

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring.

Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.

It is the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.

If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.

If we are going to make a mark (key 21), it might as well be a meaningful one.

For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals.

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial

I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.

If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

The world can only change from within.

Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.

[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other.

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.