Quotes About Making Life Meaningful

#1. The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

Robert Penn Warren

#2. Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

#3. Real talent will get through whatever the obstacles.

Kim Wilde

#4. What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Charles Darwin

#5. We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.

Beth Ditto

#6. Get all the good laughs you can.

Will Rogers

#7. Just as the English missionaries discovered when they came to India, there was no better way to carry Christ's love than through stupes and poultices, liniments and dressings, cleansing and comfort.

Abraham Verghese

#8. When you no longer need approval from others like the air you breathe, the possibilities in life are endless.
What an interesting little prison we build from the
invisible bricks of other people's opinions.

Jacob Nordby

#9. In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Neil Armstrong

#10. The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.

John Cheever

#11. The stigma of the straight-to-DVD thing is over.

Edward Burns

#12. Don't feel useless. Even a spoilt clock is right twice a day.

Unknown

#13. A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

Hans Selye

#14. Making it" in whatever field is only meaningful as long as there are thousands or millions of others who don't make it, so you need other human beings to "fail" so that your life can have meaning.

Eckhart Tolle

#15. Attending fully and becoming supple, Can you be as a newborn babe?

Laozi

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

Stephen Covey

#17. I couldn't be sufficiently interested in human beings to be a writer if I had contempt for human beings.

Nadine Gordimer

#18. Like every other mortal who has ever been touched by suicide, I had the fallacious belief that I could have done something to stop it.

Patricia Cornwell

#19. It's very different. You do so many things in this play. You can't just focus on acting or singing. You have to be good at both. I'm very glad I did this play.

Will Davis