Quotes About Meaningful Things

#1. One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.

Tad R. Callister

#2. How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?

Bruno Schulz

#3. Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food.

Peace Pilgrim

#4. I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.

Ben Affleck

#5. I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.

Ziggy Marley

#6. I think a lot of people assume from my music and stuff I'm constantly talking about deep and meaningful things, but then with my friends I'm just a class clown.

Ella Henderson

#7. Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.

Jimenez Lai

#8. the only things that really matter in this world are the relationships you have with the people you love, and the meaningful things that you do. Haters don't fit anywhere into that. Don't devote any mental space to them.

James Altucher

#9. Leah watches Natalie stride over to her beautiful kitchen with her beautiful child. Everything behind those French doors is full and meaningful. The gestures, the glances, the conversations that can't be heard. How do you get to be so full? And so full of only meaningful things?

Zadie Smith

#10. I want to be fulfilled creatively as an actress and get to be in roles that are meaningful and impactful. I hope the same thing for myself as a director, one day. I want to make things that have an impact on how we look at the world.

Amandla Stenberg

#11. That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Umberto Eco

#12. I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.

Anne Rice

#13. Doing a huge number of things doesn't mean you're getting anything meaningful done.

Leo Babauta

#14. Some of the things that have been the most meaningful to me have been experiences I've shared with my family.

Kathleen Battle

#15. When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them.

Richard Moe

#16. When Pinterest works well, it helps you find things that are meaningful to you. We want to build a system that helps you do that.

Ben Silbermann

#17. Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

Edward Abbey

#18. When people do things for you, it's because they want to - because you, in some way, give them something meaningful that makes them want to please you, not because anyone owes you anything.

Harry Browne

#19. One of the great things about an open system like Android is it addresses all ends of the spectrum. Getting great low-cost computing devices at scale to the developing world is especially meaningful to me.

Sundar Pichai

#20. In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder.

Clayton M Christensen

#21. We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music - just doing these things make us happy. They have no extrinsic purpose. To give them one takes away from their joy.

Zander Sherman

#22. What companies and entrepreneurs sometimes forget is that the purpose of innovation is not simply to make new, improved products and services; it is to make things that are meaningful to the people who use them.

Bernadette Jiwa

#23. Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Anton Chekhov

#24. I don't just write a script, and then someone takes it away and builds a game. I am continually getting input in order to create a big suspension field to hold the gameplay together so that the gamers aren't doing arbitrary tasks, so that they are doing things that seem meaningful.

Marc Laidlaw

#25. The things I'm saying in my records are always me. I write about things in my life that I'm experiencing. When you hear the personal meaningful records that aren't about partying, they stem from my life.

Mike Stud

#26. This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

Tilda Swinton

#27. Two things can make life meaningful: books and love ... I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love.

Joel Dicker

#28. I've always wanted my lyrics to say something meaningful and, you know, you always want to tell a message with your art. So yes, as I continue to write music, I will write about things that are real and things that I feel aren't written about a lot.

Hayley Kiyoko

#29. Will Rogers became the biggest, most popular, and highest-paid star of every existing media of his time. The biggest star America ever produced. What is even more remarkable, the things he said and wrote remain as relevant and meaningful today as they did 60 and 70 years ago.

Tommy Tune

#30. A 'biomass' man is not deeply analyzing things to draw a meaningful conclusions

Sunday Adelaja

#31. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

Marilyn Monroe

#32. I think it's because we're looking for the meaning. Where is the meaning? We have mindless jobs, we take frantic vacations, deficit finance trips to the mall to buy more things that we think are going to fill these holes in our lives. Is it any wonder that we've lost our sense of direction?

Matthew McConaughey

#33. You never know that the things you're doing are that meaningful to society.

Jack Ma

#34. As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

Ayelet Waldman

#35. When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

Mitchel Resnick

#36. The meaningful times, the meaningful people, even the people who were not so meaningful, but these people who have done things in your life that make you what you are, they're bricks in the building that you are.

Antwone Fisher

#37. Let us not take offence over small cheese, let things slide off when they don't really matter, not take things personally, be free to make better use of our energy, to get on with something meaningful instead.

Jay Woodman

#38. My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and puzzling enough to entice conversation and interpretation, but also to do the opposite: to make some things clear so that it is meaningful in some way, not just a random assemblage of ideas.

Shane Carruth

#39. Things are often more meaningful when they come out of natural need. You don't think about the beating of your heart until things go amiss. And there aren't many things much sweeter than breath after the lack of it.

David Crowder

#40. I write about things that tear me apart, and it's all very personal to me. It's funny to hear people disassemble the lyrics. If they get it wrong, it almost means more to me, because it's morphed into something that is meaningful to them.

Robby Takac

#41. The ability to observe, and the ability to see the little things that seem trivial at first, may become amazingly important and meaningful.

Harold Gatty

#42. At the end of the day
after work, after trying to spend some sort of meaningful time with Alice and Noomi
Georgie was usually too tired to make things right with Neal before they fell asleep. So things stayed wrong.

Rainbow Rowell

#43. In their quest for a life without failure, suffering, or doubt, that is what they achieve: a life empty of all those things that make a human life meaningful.

Sheila Heti

#44. President Bush said that if illegal immigrants want citizenship, they'd have to do three things: pay taxes, hold meaningful jobs, and learn English. Bush doesn't meet those qualifications.

P. J. O'Rourke

#45. The Bible has a very meaningful expression: The Spirit makes all things new. We are those who grow old, and we want everything done to our aged standards. The Spirit is never old; the Spirit is always young.

Oscar Romero

#46. One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.

James Dobson

#47. I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented as being about humanity and human emotion are just so convoluted and overly dramatic and focus on these certain little things that are supposedly meaningful, but just don't really mean anything.

Ellar Coltrane

#48. Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#49. You humble me, Nikki. Don't you see that? It must be clear from my expression that I do not, because he goes on. If I do all those things for you
soothe you, center you, give you strength
then that is worth more to me than every penny I have earned building Stark International.

J. Kenner

#50. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so.

Ed Catmull

#51. Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill - but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.

Patrice O'Neal

#52. Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense.

Bill Gates

#53. for the first time I am confronted with the fact that places and people are like things: both made of memories and meaningful to us in the same way: we construct ourselves in our conversations with them.

Bilal Tanweer

#54. I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It's only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they're just economic figures.

Narendra Modi

#55. The time you spend together doing a thousand inconsequential things is what culminates in a meaningful childhood.

Stacie Cockrell

#56. If someone is determined not to risk pain, then such a person must do without many things: [ ... ] - all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.

M. Scott Peck

#57. People like to have something to turn down, though. They want to be able to say no to some things, because it makes their yes more meaningful. (pg. 25)

Deb Caletti

#58. When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.

Ed Greenwood

#59. What keeps things going, what sustains families, what makes work meaningful, what contributes to our wellbeing and what really connects us to Nature is cooperation

Ed Mayo

#60. For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money.

Ray Dalio

#61. The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.

Erwin McManus

#62. So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

Brit Marling

#63. I don't find a lot of people actually saying things through music any longer. They are not trying to say anything with their music, they just want to make money with it. I think it's important to actually say something real, something meaningful, rather than just write some trash and try to sell it.

Robben Ford

#64. Good things come in good time.

Wiz Khalifa

#65. Our genuine happiness comes from doing things we feel good about, not from doing things that make us feel good.

John Bruna

#66. Your genuine happiness does not come from other people, activities or things, it comes from living a meaningful life - a life that is in alignment with your values and is beneficial.

John Bruna

#67. I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

Chaim Potok

#68. I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

Doseone

#69. I clean out my house weekly. I just keep a lot of silly little things that are meaningful to me.

Cassie Scerbo

#70. When you see which choices, which decisions, a being makes, you see what is truly meaningful to them. They may say many things, but the choices they make let you see their souls.

Colleen Vanderlinden

#71. I believe faith is a journey, not something that we fix when it goes wrong or that we have to follow in a set required way, but something that is always opening up in front of us with the people me meet and the things we do, becoming more meaningful along the way.

Phil Mitchell

#72. Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger] said, to a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Roger Lowenstein

#73. Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

Dalai Lama

#74. There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.

Henry Rollins

#75. I love you, Nora. Whatever happens, promise me you'll remember that. I don't care why you came into my life, only that you did. I don't remember all the things I did wrong. I remember what I did right, I remember you. You made my life meaningful. You made my life special.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#76. The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream

Helen Keller

#77. Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ...

E.A. Bucchianeri

#78. I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20's and 30's ... I had other things on my mind ... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

Mark Edwards

#79. Amidst the rush and confusion of modern life something old and wise is trying to catch up with us. Whereas simple knowledge tends to divide things, genuine wisdom tends to make meaningful unity possible.

Michael Meade

#80. What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

Joshua Foer

#81. You can write a song about a girl or you can write a song about walking down the shops, and it's fine. I just try and do something as meaningful as I can without trying to be a pretentious loser because it's genuinely just how I see things.

Matt Corby

#82. WHAT MAKES CITY LIFE MEANINGFUL IS THE THINGS WE HIDE.

Orhan Pamuk

#83. We package everything as a product so we can derive income from it. Then we can occupy ourselves with higher-order psychological lifestyle things. This is a very new issue. Money still matters, but other factors have joined the status game - like how interesting, how meaningful your work is.

Tino Sehgal

#84. Everything is a starting point for something else and we work at it until we find the things that are meaningful to us. If we believe in ourselves, others will too.

Judith D. Andrade

#85. Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

Judi Dench

#86. There is a high bar for something to be considered a human right. Loosely put, it must be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy, meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience.

Vint Cerf

#87. I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

Maggie Cheung

#88. The hardest things to do are sometimes the ones that prove most meaningful, but not necessarily the ones we remember most fondly.

Katy Evans

#89. My family didn't film anything. But then you look deeper and realize, maybe there are photographs, there are things. It's also context: You give something a context, and suddenly it becomes really deep or meaningful footage.

Asif Kapadia

#90. one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#91. Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems.

Anthony Of Padua

#92. I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

Harold Ramis