Quotes About Meaningful

The essential ingredient of successful deep and meaningful psychotherapy is love. ... Intensive psychotherapy in many ways is a process of reparenting.

Time is always precious," Hirianthial said softly. "Only if you fill it with something," Sascha said. "Otherwise it's marking the hours.

The Slow movement can get us back in touch with what it means to carry out scholarly work. Instead of "I am producing ...," we might say to ourselves and others, "I am contemplating ...," or "I am conversing with ..." or even "I am in joyful pursuit of ...

That's the consequence of not defaulting to truth. If you don't begin in a state of trust, you can't have meaningful social encounters.

This is the gift of training and expertise—the ability to extract an enormous amount of meaningful information from the very thinnest slice of experience.

And the Beatles didn't recoil in horror when they were told they had to play eight hours a night, seven days a week. They jumped at the chance. Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.

If you want to be a great New York lawyer, it is an advantage to be an outsider, and it is an advantage to have parents who did meaningful work, and, better still, it is an advantage to have been born in the early 1930s. But if you have all three advantages -- on top of a good dose of ingenuity and drive -- then that's an unstoppable combination. That's like being a hockey player born on January 1.

I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.

Don't count your dollars to see how rich you are. Count your memories. Count your friends. Count the hugs you get every day. Count what really matters.

Every day you leave a legacy behind, so make it a good one by doing something of significance.

REAL Leadership is the building of belief, that activates and aligns the full potential, for a meaningful cause

A High Performance team requires people with High Performance Mindsets, with relevant competence, committed and balanced communication, to a meaningful and challenging goal.

We get one shot at this thing called life. Let's make it matter.

Small talk is like the air that shatters the stalactites into dust again. I do not participate. I wait. I laugh. I am aware that shallowness disintegrates the deeper undercurrents everyone seeks. The underground rivers of dreams, of deeper and deeper selves running underneath. I prefer my submarine region.

We are meant not just for thin, virtual connections but for visceral, real connections to one another in this fleeting, temporary, and infinitely beautiful and worthwhile life.

Italo Calvino quote, 'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.' For I have read The Great Gatsby numerous times, and always discover new things in each reading.

Emotion is what counts: it is more valuable than anything.

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

You know, I think I knew you for about three weeks before I ever really saw you smile. And then one day, Morgan said something and you laughed, and I remember thinking it was really cool because it meant something. You're not the kind of person who smiles for nothing, Colie. I have to earn every one.

The big moments with Ethan weren't, well, big. Instead, it was these tiny increments and gestures that I clung to in order to hold on to him.

The best gifts come from the heart, not a store.

Therefore we didn't talk of genuine things.

What thing is so pleasant, and what so profitable, as to talk of the things of God?

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.