Quotes About Meaningful

I don't go in the studio to make music that won't matter. I go in every night to try to make a point and make the best music that I can make.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ~ Abraham Lincoln

He felt an enormous responsibility in being the one to declare their worth or lack thereof. What if he threw away something that had been especially meaningful to his grandmother, a family memory that once discarded by him would no longer exist?

to identify two types of coincidences — meaningful and unmeaningful. But beyond that no one has gotten very far — except for astrologers.

Now, altogether this was an incredible Event. Normally, the theories of mere coincidences or chance happenings are used to explain away something like this. But how, or more importantly, why should so many "chance happenings" group themselves together to produce such a meaningful result? Admittedly, a seemingly unimportant

But the Indians gesture touched me. It was nothing, but it was everthing. It took so little to mane a difference.

most days in life are ordinary. When special ones roll around, celebrate and make happy memories to carry you through the dull days.

Speak less and say more

A classic is a book that has never finished what it wants to say.

All that can be done is for each of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics; and I would say that one half of it would consist of books we have read and that have meant something for us and the other half of books which we intend to read and which we suppose might mean something to us. We should also leave a section of empty spaces for surprises and chance discoveries.

Even at her worst she made you think, and that's worth something in a person.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

Conscious of time, Jesus spent His time doing things that mattered. No time was wasted on things not vital.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Solving a real problem was much more meaningful than saving fictional souls from a fictional hell.

When you focus on making a meaningful impact on others, money comes faster, more naturally, and with less effort.

Would it be unreasonable to expect to find fulfilling, enjoyable, spiritually significant, income-producing work?

Education is not about just planting a seed; it is also about nurturing, over many decades, a productive, meaningful, and happy life.

It's more satisfying to be useful now than to be remembered later.

They created a high-purpose environment, flooded the zone with signals that linked the present effort to a meaningful future, and used a single story to orient motivation the way that a magnetic field orients a compass needle to true north: This is why we work. Here is where you should put your energy.

No matter what, that friendship is real. No matter how much you dissect it, or talk about it, or analyze it, it'll always be real.

Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.

If you have a broken heart, it means you have done something big enough and important enough and valuable enough to have broken your heart.