Quotes on Meaningful

Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!

I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.

If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?

Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently.

Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual’s world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolated…. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes them and back again from the whole thus reached to the particular significant facts.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.

This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.