Quotes About Meaningful

But like all excellent, fulfilling and meaningful relationships, it has also occasionally been frustrating and challenging.

The most mundane details of life are not mundane if they're done with someone else in mind. When you're in love, everything's important.

George Colman (the Younger)

If a book isn't at least somewhat polarizing, it didn't say anything of value. [Blog entry - November 1, 2014]

When unsure of the stranger's intentions, the best policy is to open a meaningful dialogue. "Hey, dickhead! Who taught you to shoot, Louis Braille? That arrow missed me by a mile.

The virtues have secret names: they are, so difficult of access, secret things. Everything that is worthy is secret.

Her solemn face of a Hebrew angel regarded me, ready, stripped of expression.

These words had impressed Clement deeply, inscribed upon his heart.

Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases.

Can entropy ever be reversed? We both know entropy can't be reversed. You can't turn smoke and ash back into a tree. Do you have trees on your world? The sound of the Galactic AC startled them into silence. Its voice came thin and beautiful out of the small AC-contact on the desk. It said: THERE IS INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER

La gratitud es mejor y más eficaz cuando no se evapora en frases vacías.

El viaje de la vida se hace de largos trechos tediosos, paso a paso, día a día, sin que suceda nada impactante, pero la memoria se hace con los acontecimientos inesperados que marcan el trayecto. Esos son los que vale la pena narrar.

The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that's not my area of coverage.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

Literature is news that stays news.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.

Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.