Quotes About Meaningful

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

It was similar to that intense way you felt when you were newly in love, or newly pregnant, or driving a car on your own for the very first time. Everything felt significant.

The busier we are, the more important it is that we make sure there is special family time. It is not enough to think family time is important; it must be important. What we do is the visible expression of our real values.

What significant details do you remember about how you met your special animal? Why do you think this animal came into your life at the time he or she did?

It's easy to make a buck; it's tough to make a difference."4

Yeah, but, Lules – a social worker. Do you know how draining that will be? How hard? The hours you'll have to work? The stuff you'll bring home with you? Wouldn't you rather just get, like, a shop job or something? Something easy? Something local?

Having regrets is the only sign that you've done anything interesting with your life.

Starting with the values that feel authentic to who you are can serve as a compass to find more meaningful, fulfilling work.

When I became a father, I saw what passed for family entertainment. So much of it was vapid. I wanted to make things that mattered.

But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

I want to create a body of work that is really, deeply important to people. One of the vehicles I use is business.

As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.

When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.

At this point, in 2008, if you put out a book, a movie, or write a verse, paint a painting, it should have some sort of social value.

Singing a worship song is not necessarily worship, and neither is writing a check. But when the heart engages in a meaningful way through a praise song or a hymn, it becomes more than just singing. And when the heart engages through a gift that matters, it becomes more than just writing a check.

I've come to realize this isn't "real" and there's no substitute for actual interaction. The difference between social media and a social life is the difference between eating a marshmallow Peep and dining on a tomahawk-cut rib eye: one is substantial and nutritious; the other is just a momentarily satisfying puff of sweetened air, offering no long-term benefits. I can enjoy the fluff, but I can't subsist on it.

But they were not in any meaningful sense religious, the Church of England being a political invention which had elevated being 'a good chap' to something akin to canonization.

life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work. 

But finding work worth doing and having people in your life worth doing it for…doing the best you can every day…that feels honorable to me.

Another thing is that we communicate mainly through IM, which is a fairly low-bandwidth way of communicating, so you're not going to disrupt somebody unless you're going to say something that matters. If you meet in person, it's very easy to just talk for 30 minutes, and what was the information exchange actually about?

Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.

To the extent that your work takes into account the needs of the world, it will be menaingful; to the extent that through it you express your unique talents, it will be joyful.

I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

... it is the work and not the reward that is precious.