Top 38 Quotes About Meaningfulness
#1. Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare.
Peter Brook
#2. Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#3. Synchronicity is a term used by Carl Jung to describe coincidences that are related by meaningfulness rather than by cause and effect.
David Richo
#4. Doing something, he had discovered, anything, however small, that contributed to your meaningfulness of self and surroundings - well, that was the trick. That was the trick to not feel like shit.
Sunil Yapa
#5. Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes ... he balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.
Vaclav Havel
#6. Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is not supported by our original intuitions of possibility that gave the apparatus its point.
Saul Kripke
#7. During a peak experience," Maslow explained, "the individual experiences an expansion of self, a sense of unity, and meaningfulness in life. The experience lingers in one's consciousness and gives a sense of purpose, integration, self-determination and empathy.
Steven Kotler
#8. I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.
Elizabeth Lesser
#9. I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
Ian K. Smith
#10. There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness.
Pierce Brosnan
#11. Read all kinds of stories to your child. Don't be afraid if they don't all have happy endings. Being exposed to peaks and valleys of life encourages empathy, resilience, and feelings of meaningfulness and gratitude for our own lives.
Iben Dissing Sandahl
#12. At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.
M.J. Ryan
#13. I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got.
Hermann Hesse
#14. it is the breadth, flexibility, and meaningfulness of our roles and behaviors that defines health. Good health does not mean ease.
JoAnne C. Dahl
#16. Humans find meaningfulness where none exists because we want to create a sense of order in this chaotic universe. It's called apophenia. (And it's also the reason people believe in God.)
Megan McCafferty
#17. Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services.
Idries Shah
#18. Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
Ernest Becker
#19. If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.
Krystal
#20. Acts of violence
Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death
and the meaninglessness of killing.
Dag Hammarskjold
#21. What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.
Viktor E. Frankl
#22. Men in plural [ ... ] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
Hannah Arendt
#23. Reducing human beings to the faint after-image of some omnipotent deity, or trying to give human life meaning by postponing real fulfilment to some post-mortem paradise ... can actually threaten to rob real life of its meaningfulness.
British Humanist Association
#24. even admirable human desires for love, for belonging, and for meaning can be manipulated by unscrupulous individuals to benefit themselves
Noah Berlatsky
#25. Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading.
Will Advise
#26. An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.
Oliver North
#27. The trappings of success bring the opposite of success in the ways most meaningful to people's lives.
Bryant McGill
#28. Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way.
Enza Vita
#30. Find something to help you accept reality. Because after all, that's where the pain's come from - from reality.Find something good, something magnificent, find you something meaningful to fill that hole that's ate you up on the inside.
Stevie J. Cole
#31. Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world.
Bryant McGill
#32. Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no trees, no oil, no vines, no wine, not even chickens. He asks, 'What kind of life is that?' He says, 'No wonder you don't sing or dance or recite poetry very often.
Robert Fulghum
#33. When the heart opens, we forget ourselves and the world pours in: this world, and also the invisible world of meaning that sustains everything that was and ever shall be.
Roger Housden
#34. Everything has a hidden secret meaning to be revealed or to be sealed.
Auliq Ice
#35. Usability is not only about ease of use but also about bringing something meaningful, having an objective in common with the user.
Marcus Osterberg
#36. Meaning beginns in the words, in the action, continues in your head and ends nowhere. There is no end to meaning. Meaning which is resolved, parcelled, labelled and ready for export is dead, impartient - and meaningless.
Pfister
#37. As a subconscious attempt to add meaning or purpose to their life: The unemployed pray for a job; the retired pray for grandchildren.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#38. Real life is to be found in natural things that have meaning.
Fennel Hudson
