Meaningful Quotes · Page 21

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

— Dan Heath

A hug from a samurai girl is warmer than a heap of blankets and more meaningful than a pile of words.

— Sandy Fussell

Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.

— Mariane Pearl

Just because the past taps you on the shoulder, does not mean you have to look back.

— Wiz Khalifa

Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny.

— Phil Cousineau

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

Sometimes you can have a whole lifetime in a day and never notice that this is a beautiful as it gets.

— Robin Williams

Survivorship comes with unspoken pressures, responsibilities and challenges. After all, what is the point of saving a life if the life isn't…

— Suleika Jaouad

“Life is potentially meaningful under any conditions, even those which are most miserable. And this in turn presupposes the human capacity to…

— Viktor E. Frankl

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now…

— Rudolf Steiner

The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful…

— Martin Seligman

I think that not criticizing my successor is a statement unto itself, in terms of trying to create an environment where people…

— George W. Bush

Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The…

— Henrietta Mears

Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or…

— Scott Ritter

I can't hold it in any longer, I gasp for air and cough. The shit they're feeding us is enough to make…

— Raghib Clitso

It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something…

— Anne Graham Lotz

As you begin to feel this enormous shift of consciousness, called multisensory perception, emerging in your awareness, you begin to reorient yourself.…

— Gary Zukav

“When love has been in your life you see that the only true, real pleasure of life is love. Every other thrill…

— Rajaa Alsanea

I am willing to believe that my unobtainable sixty seconds within a sponge or a flatworm might not reveal any mental acuity…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Finding a meaningful life can be easy:  Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you … and devote yourself…

— Wayne Kelly

You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such…

— Sam Abell

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the…

— Barack Obama

I don't feel like I possess a particular political intelligence, and when I read work that does, I feel like somebody else…

— Zoe Kazan

I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to…

— Glenn Gould

Communicative skills develop when there's something meaningful for children to communicate about-when they are taking an active role.

— Lilian Katz

I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to…

— Warren Beatty

I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to…

— John Hodgman

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

— John Ruskin

It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful.

— Viktor E. Frankl

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

— Nia Vardalos

A mother is the only person who will always love you unconditionally no matter what you have done.

— Ritu

For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage…

— Lionel Barrymore

We have so many different options now and ways to communicate digitally. But I don't think anything is more meaningful or powerful…

— Debra Messing

Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has…

— Ai Weiwei

“The search for purpose and meaning is fundamentally human; the uniting trait of our species.”

— Zach Mercurio

“I become convinced that you have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.”

— Cristina García

Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.

— Ronald Reagan

Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.

— Edward Burtynsky

Your task it is, amid confusion, rush, and noise, to grasp the lasting, calm and meaningful, and finding it anew, to hold…

— Paul Hindemith

As long as you believe what you’re doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step.

— Arlene Blum