Quotes About Meaningful

something that's so thoughtful on the outside you say, 'Oh, wow, it must be really thoughtful

WASTING TIME IS a big problem in the world we live in, that's for sure. But it doesn't mean that we necessarily have to know what the goal is for every step we take. Sometimes we do things that are not directly connected and yet are still significant.

I had a lot of questions, but none I wanted to ask. It was nice, though, riding with my father. It was like the silence connected us in a way that explanations never could.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

There's no sense in doing a lot of barking if you don't really have anything to say.

To have lived an entire life of productivity, of self-sufficiency, having been a net giver, never a taker, never relying on others. To call oneself master, to hold oneself out as a source of expertise, to have had the courage and ability and discipline that added up to a meaningful, perhaps even noteworthy life, built over decades from nothing, and then at some point in that serious life, finding oneself searching for calories.

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.

We are obligated to the people we care about and who we allow to care about us, whether we say we love them or not. Our main obligation is to be forthright--to elucidate the nature of our affection when such elucidation would be meaningful or clarifying.

The kindest and most meaningful thing anyone ever says to me is: Your mother would be proud of you.

Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word "love" to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.

Practice saying the word "love" to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.

A wink is a little piece of your heart, a type of smile, a special link.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.... the poet brings his poem... the farmer, corn... the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing. This is right and pleasing, for it restores society in so far to its primary basis, when a man's biography is conveyed in his gift... But it is a cold, lifeless business, when you go to the shops to buy me something which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.

Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

More than any other human problem, loneliness, the absence of meaningful human connection, drains the joy and the sense of purpose from our lives.

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

Life's too short to spend with important people.

Life is too precious to spend it with important people.

the only people you need in your life are the people who needs you in theres

All the objects you gifted me cannot replace your love.

Lizzy, Will thought. Lizzy P. 'You n me gonna be buddies, darlin'. He stretched one hand to Elly's hair, and circled Donald Wade's rump with his free arm and touched Thomas's leg, on the far side of Elly. And he smiled at Lizzy P. and thought, Heaven's got nothin' on being the husband of Eleanor Dinsmore.