Quotes About Meaningful

As deep and meaningful connection with another becomes more available and frequent, the survivor increasingly experiences the shrinking of his abandonment depression.

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.

key is to uncouple fear from the biological immobility response so that the response can complete itself—work through into a meaningful course of action.

To get from people you had to give a piece of yourself, a real piece that mattered. Just being nice was not enough.

Knowledge, skills, and experiences that are vivid and hold significance, and those that are periodically practiced, stay with us.

Learning is stronger when it matters, when the abstract is made concrete and personal.

So, too, if we wish to speak of God meaningfully, in ways that engage the people of today, we cannot do so by forcing them to swallow an ancient reality that is demonstrably not real.

What is at stake is a faith that can actually remain sustainable and meaningful because it listens to the challenges of the present as we follow the God who is always out ahead of us, ready to surprise us.

leyenda de Sobek demostró que las historias no tienen por qué ser largas ni tortuosas. Lo que sí tienen que hacer es sorprendernos.

No 'buts', Gilbert. You just make sense to me. It's nothing more special than that.

He had a few good friends who respected him and would do anything for him. Why did anyone else need to be impressed?

In making my work meaningful to others, I had also made it compelling to myself. No longer was I just working on somebody else's problems. I was part of an intellectual enterprise with relatively well-defined goals, which might actually make a difference to humanity.