Quotes About Meaningful

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Adam has the most engaging smile and I realize, this is a private smile reserved just for me . . . like he's waited his whole life for just one smile.

Can one remember the words uttered in the first moment of meeting between a mother and son, husband and wife, or lover and lover? The simplest, most ordinary, even ridiculous words are said, if they were put down exactly upon paper. But each word is opportune and infinitely dear because it is uttered by the dearest voice in all the world.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that counts. It's the life in your years.

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

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years.

It is not the years in your life that count, it is the life in your years.

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

There wasn't time for artifice; their connection was the destination, not the dance that preceded it.

When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others. Though we are often taught to think of ourselves as inherently selfish, the longing to act meaningfully in our work seems just as stubborn a part of our make-up as our appetite for status or money.

We might define art as anything which pushes our thoughts in important yet neglected directions.

When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others.

When does a job feel meaningful? When we can, at the end of the day, feel as if our work has in some way, however modestly, helped either to reduce the misery or to increase the contentment of others.

Focus on the highest, clearest, and most meaningful teaching you can find, and let all else go.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.

If magic exploits our capacity to continuously, unconsciously modify events in the ongoing world to form a story, even at the expense of everything we know to be possible in the universe, then we are indeed master editors, tirelessly working to communicate to others and ourselves a meaningful tale.

many forces that influenced the flow of the tale: boons and curses and manmade laws. There was no hero or villain in the epic, just people struggling with life, responding to crises, making mistakes, repeating mistakes, in innocence or ignorance, while trying to make their lives meaningful and worthwhile.

There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound.

He looked through the bars thoughtfully, then back at me. "I'll never forget how she went to you after Lois's funeral that day," he said. "She's a very intuitive little girl, and that moment told me something about you." "It did?" I asked. He nodded. "It told me you're someone worth fighting for," he said.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Each small kindness given or received is evidence that life is worthwhile.