Quotes About Meaningful

Bast spoke up. "May I ask a question, Reshi?" Kote smiled gently. "Always, Bast." "A troublesome question?" "Those tend to be the only worthwhile kind.

I hope they spent those last few hours well. I hope they didn't waste them on mindless tasks: kindling the evening fire and cutting vegetables for dinner. I hope they sang together, as they so often did. I hope they retired to our wagon and spent time in each other's arms. I hope they lay near each other afterward and spoke softly of small things. I hope they were together, busy with loving each other, until the end came.

Puedo hacerte una pregunta, Reshi? Kote sonrió con amabilidad. —Por supuesto, Bast. —¿Una pregunta molesta? —Esas suelen ser las únicas que merecen la pena.

You're important with your green eyes looking at me like I mean something. It's okay that you have better things to do. It's enough that I get you sometimes. Once in a while. I know I'm lucky for that, to get you just a little." I

I hope they spent those last few hours well. I hope they didn't waste them on mindless tasks: kindling the evening fire and cutting vegetables for dinner. I hope they sang together, as they so often did. I hope they retired to our wagon and spent time in each other's arms. I hope they lay near each other afterward and spoke softly of small things. I hope they were together, busy with loving each other, until the end came. It

Know how to recognize a meaningful experience when we see it.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

If you're looking to find a career that makes a difference - and work you really love - this book will show you how.

Like most analyses, my conception of a meaningful activity is centered around significance and impact.

There is no contradiction here. Money does make you happy; it's the trying to make money that makes you sad. The trick is to get money in the course of other, meaningful, pursuits—or, if you can manage it, to be born into wealth.)

WE'VE BEEN TALKING about meaningful pursuits, but there are meaningful experiences as well. Here the bar is dropped somewhat. These can be more passive and don't necessarily involve achieving a goal. What seems to be key here is that they will change you in some way.

It turned out that the most meaningful events tended to be on the extremes—those that were very pleasant or very painful. These are the ones that matter, that leave a mark.

But developing meaningful relationships takes more than being friendly. A true business relationship requires you to ascertain a customer's visions, desires, fears, and motivations.

But false niceness can never and will never produce an authentic, deeply meaningful relationship, just like weeds won't magically produce zinnias.

Mig would be happier if he found something purposeful to do (in exchange for some of his fun stuff) and Lisa would be happier if she had a little more fun (in exchange for some of her time spent feeling purposeful).

To assess purpose, three adjectives were added—focused, engaged, competent/able—as well as three statements: "I feel the activities in this episode . . .": were worthwhile and meaningful; were useful to other people; helped me achieve important goals. The response scale for all questions ranged from 0 (not at all) to 6 (very strongly).

We are emotionally and physically healthier when we are meaningfully engaged with other people. This means engaged with others in compassionate and altruistic ways.

The visual statement, on the other hand, which seeks to express the essence of an idea, and which is based on function, fantasy, and analytic judgment, is likely to be not only unique but meaningful and memorable as well.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.

For voice to be meaningful, there must be those willing to listen.

Oh, well, we did have a good day out together, you and I, that doesn't happen every day, does it?

This is essential because without a properly functioning ego, you have no center for making healthy choices and decisions. All too often, your decisions are based on the fear of getting in trouble or getting abandoned, rather than on the principles of having meaningful and equitable interactions with the world.