Meaningful Quotes - Page 4

I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Theres something about girls and unicorns thats deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.

Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea.

Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

People ask me why it is so hard to trust and I ask them why is it so hard to keep a promise.

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

I was not born with enough middle fingers.

A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.

The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.

Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.

It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.

It's easy to say, 'I love you,' to someone, but it's more meaningful to thank someone for loving you.

Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks by us in our joys and sorrows. In good times and bad, we need friends who will pray for us, listen to us, and lend a comforting hand and an understanding ear when needed.

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.