Quotes About Meaningful

What is the point of sharing your life with someone if you can't communicate with them about the things that matter?

Love is not a matter of counting the years . . . But making the years count.

Coincidence means two incidents occurring simultaneously. Doesn't mean just random, but meaningful connections, unfolding of the divinity. Let more meaningful incidents be synchronized, recognize them and get MickeyMized!

It might be true that it is "quality time" that counts, but after a certain point quantity has a bearing on quality.

When adversity threatens to paralyze us, we need to reassert control by finding a new direction in which to invest psychic energy, a direction that lies outside the reach of external forces. When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free. Solzhenitsyn

When every aspiration is frustrated, a person still must seek a meaningful goal around which to organize the self. Then, even though that person is objectively a slave, subjectively he is free.

Ideally, the end of extrinsically applied education should be the start of an education that is motivated intrinsically. At that point the goal of studying is no longer to make the grade, earn a diploma, and find a good job. Rather, it is to understand what is happening around one, to develop a personally meaningful sense of what one's experience is all about.

Unconditional acceptance, the complete trust family members ought to have for one another, is meaningful only when it is accompanied by an unstinting investment of attention. Otherwise it is just an empty gesture, a hypocritical pretense indistinguishable from disinterest.

The record seems to suggest that a society begins to rely heavily on leisure-and especially on passive leisure-only when it has become incapable of offering meaningful productive occupation to its members.

As long as a significant segment of society has few opportunities to encounter meaningful challenges, and few chances to develop the skills necessary to benefit from them, we must expect that violence and crime will attract those who cannot find their way to more complex autotelic experiences.

How can it help a person learn to rid himself of anxieties and fears and thus become free of the controls of society, whose rewards he can now take or leave? As suggested before, the way is through control over consciousness, which in turn leads to control over the quality of experience. Any small gain in that direction will make life more rich, more enjoyable, more meaningful.

Goethe wrote, "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."[15] That's true in every area of life—including our relationships.

For many churches, as they seek to create comfortable environments in the form of worship services or small groups, have lost their ability to challenge people in meaningful ways. Challenge may be given from the pulpit or stage on Sunday mornings, but challenge is always given best in the context of personal relationships. We

living deliberately,

If you are trying to figure out if something is God's call on your life, ask these questions: Who would this be helping? What good is it?

that is, trust in you-the-soul's plan for you-the-personality's life, in the power of the collective consciousness and the flow to bring the "just right" next thing, in your ability to notice what you need to notice and make it meaningful in an accurate way, and in the deep inner goodness of all people and their desire to cocreate and help one another evolve.

Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful

Maybe my life can be significant—not on a grand scale like my brother, but to a few people

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.

I thought these were just my starter friends and the real ones would come along later. But no. These are my real friends

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.