Quotes About Meaningful

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference. You know, actually change something.

Supongo que lo importante es aportar algo –dijo ella–. Cambiar las cosas, vaya. –¿En qué sentido, el de "cambiar el mundo"? –No, todo el mundo no, sólo la pequeña parte que te rodea.

Rather than counseling despair, educating for the unknown favors a vision of learning aggressive in its effort to foster curiosity, enlightenment, empowerment, and responsibility in a complex and dynamic world. It favors a broad and visionary reach for meaningful learning.

What if all that happens to us is exactly what schools us in how to evolve in love in the course of life? That is the very definition of synchronicity, meaningful coincidence: Just the right events and people come along to allow us to articulate the love we are inside. All of them are emissaries of some nuance of light we need to let the full colors of our love appear in all their incandescence.

Yes, a meaningful casual encounter can really enrich life. It is one of life's special punctuation marks. One should cherish these liaisons as much as any committed relationship they may counterpoint. If they are set against an austere, solitary canvas, their light shines ever brighter.

Now think of a situation in which something becomes meaningful to you. What is there to grasp? What is there to keep under control? That is not the idea. You will find yourself using expressions in which you are perfectly passive or at least more passive. "Responsive" is really the word, but you are more passive than in a situation in which you are accomplishing a purpose. You will say, "This really did something to me.

Good work, done well for the right reasons...

Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter.

Was he a good father?" To their surprise, I shake my head and smile. "No," I reply candidly. "He wasn't a good father, but he was a good man." Where Dad came from, that meant a great deal more.

She is wrong, you know. What you do is important. You save people," I told him, pressing my lips to the half-moon scar high upon his cheekbone. "You saved me." His arm tightened about my waist and we stood for a long moment, wrapped in each other.

When we suffer we inspire ourselves to change. Imagine we had no pain to overcome, we would not take action to make our life any more meaningful. Turn your suffering into motivation to change.

The strength is given to me by the recognition I don't waste it in vain.

Dreams, desires, destiny, and difficulties in life make it a magical and meaningful fairytale.

I would rather have 30 minutes of "wonderful" than a lifetime of nothing special.

It only takes one minute to find a really good book, but it can give you a lifetime of memories when you read a really good book that leaves you with lasting impression.

Your life becomes precious when you use your thoughts and actions to make someone precious in your life.

Friendship is a poetry of life that is written in two hearts.

The language of a smile is charming, mesmerizing, meaningful, and often mysterious, but everyone understands a smile better than words.

I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to encourage further gifts or kindnesses.

They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.

La motivación para escribir un buen libro la da el tener algo importante que contar.