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There's a wonderful stable of directors I've worked with, and work I've done that has dignity and meaningfulness. ~ Pierce Brosnan
Meaningfulness quotes by Pierce Brosnan
The marriage relationship is one of God's creations for building up people. It gives husbands and wives the chance to minister to an immortal human being in a uniquely intimate fashion. To enjoy the meaningfulness of marriage, then, requires a once-made but ongoing commitment of mutual ministry to our mates and the more we seize them, the more meaning our marriage will have. ~ Larry Crabb
Meaningfulness quotes by Larry Crabb
even admirable human desires for love, for belonging, and for meaning can be manipulated by unscrupulous individuals to benefit themselves ~ Noah Berlatsky
Meaningfulness quotes by Noah Berlatsky
I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness. ~ Ian K. Smith
Meaningfulness quotes by Ian K. Smith
Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Meaningfulness quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr
This is why she doesn't put much stock in so-called secrets, or the meaningfulness of untold recollections that become, in their airtight echo chambers, the supposed stuff of secrets. They are only a way to become retrospectively enraged at someone else so that your own adult weaknesses can be tidily excused. ~ Heidi Julavits
Meaningfulness quotes by Heidi Julavits
We stand on the edge of the abyss, across whose unknowable face we paint meaning so as not to see into it. It is always there. But we're here too, and we are no less real than the abyss. We are no less meaningful for being transient creatures caught up in something too big for us. There is still value to our lives. I've learned that those things that are most fragile are also the most precious. ~ Ovadya Ben Malka
Meaningfulness quotes by Ovadya Ben Malka
An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy. ~ Oliver North
Meaningfulness quotes by Oliver North
Intellectuals resist faith longer because they can: where ordinary people are helpless before the light, intellectuals are clever enough to spin webs of darkness around their minds and hide in them. That's why only Ph.D.s believe any of the 100 most absurd ideas in the world such as Absolute Relativism, or the Objective Truth of Subjectivism, of the Meaningfulness of Meaninglessness and the Meaninglessness of Meaning, which is the best definition of Deconstructionism I know. ~ Peter Kreeft
Meaningfulness quotes by Peter Kreeft
Our times and our thoughts shape us. The world is in a constant and ceaseless state of motion and transformation. The only constant is that the universe we occupy today will undergo change based in part because of our personal actions and omissions and partially because the random volitions of the world's flux are impervious to our meager intentions. We are more reactors than we are enactors of our daily shape testing experiences. Necessity demands that we interpret our physical environment and assign meaning to the mandala of experiences that resonate with our emotional cordage. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Meaningfulness quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
I love the alien in people, god I love the wildness, the wit, the lightning of the Other mind. A kind of sex-in-the-head, you know it's a rather Victorian affliction. Something to do with communication. I have had moments of communication with people, often totally unsuitable people, which had a truly unholy intensity... A sort of orgasmic meaningfulness and clarity, you know, all the old romantic stuff - two strangers stop and suddenly exchange glimpses of reality before moving on into the mists. ~ James Tiptree Jr.
Meaningfulness quotes by James Tiptree Jr.
When you ask people what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that, for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods of life lived to the fullest. ~ Peter Senge
Meaningfulness quotes by Peter Senge
The mechanism by which spirituality becomes passionate is metaphor. An ineffable God requires metaphor not only to be imagined but to be approached, exhorted, evaded, confronted, struggled with, and loved. Through metaphor, the vividness, intensity, and meaningfulness of ordinary experiences becomes the basis of a passionate spirituality. An ineffable God becomes vital through metaphor: The Supreme Being. The Prime Mover. The Creator. The Almighty. The Father. The King of Kings. Shepherd. Potter. Lawgiver. Judge. Mother. Lover. Breath.
The vehicle by which we are moved in passionate spirituality is metaphor. The mechanism of such metaphor is bodily. It is a neural mechanism that recruits our abilities to perceive, to move, to feel, and to envision in the service not only of theoretical and philosophical thought, but of spiritual experience. ~ George Lakoff
Meaningfulness quotes by George Lakoff
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
Meaningfulness quotes by Dag Hammarskjold
When you ask people about what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative. It becomes quite clear that, for many, their experiences as part of truly great teams stand out as singular periods of life lived to the fullest. Some spend the rest of their lives looking for ways to recapture that spirit. ~ Peter M. Senge
Meaningfulness quotes by Peter M. Senge
It is possible that our present-day discussion about needs might be framed more by secular psychological theories than by Scripture. If this is so, we should be careful about saying, "Jesus meets all our needs." At first, this has a plausible biblical ring to it. Christ _is_a friend; God _is_ a loving Father; Christians _do_ experience a sense of meaningfulness and confidence in knowing God's love. It makes Christ the answer to our problems. Yet if our use of the term "needs" is ambiguous, and its range of meaning extends all the way to selfish desires, then there will be some situations where we should say that Jesus does not intend to meet our needs, but that he intends to change our needs. ~ Edward T. Welch
Meaningfulness quotes by Edward T. Welch
Whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves. ~ Hannah Arendt
Meaningfulness quotes by Hannah Arendt
If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character. ~ Krystal
Meaningfulness quotes by Krystal
In front of the unfathomable vastness of the universe, we humans are insignificant particles of protoplasmic substance. But that's precisely what makes us humans – we make sense out of chaos, and in that sense we produce meaningfulness. And we then pour that meaningfulness in our lives, which then outpours into the world. Thus, we provide meaning to a meaningless world – we provide meaning to a meaningless universe. ~ Abhijit Naskar
Meaningfulness quotes by Abhijit Naskar
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
Meaningfulness quotes by Steven Kotler
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
Meaningfulness quotes by Megan McCafferty
I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now. ~ Hugh Prather
Meaningfulness quotes by Hugh Prather
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
Meaningfulness quotes by Roger Housden
The words that matter always stay. ~ David Levithan
Meaningfulness quotes by David Levithan
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
Meaningfulness quotes by Viktor E. Frankl
Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services. ~ Idries Shah
Meaningfulness quotes by Idries Shah
Ultimate meaning necessarily exceeds and surpasses the finite intellectual capacities of man ... 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. Logos is deeper than logic. ~ Viktor E. Frankl
Meaningfulness quotes by Viktor E. Frankl
When you see people doing meaningless things, you must remind yourself that it is easier for people to do meaningless things than doing meaningful things! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Meaningfulness quotes by Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
Meaningfulness quotes by British Humanist Association
Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters
or you're just fooling around. ~ Barbara Sher
Meaningfulness quotes by Barbara Sher
Hank: This is my one beautiful existence, and over the course of my life I will spend years of my life watching television; years of my life pooping; years of my life on twitter. How ok is that? [...]

One thing that I really want to get away from is the idea that time is wasted when you are not producing something. [...]

John: I do think that there might be some value in asking yourself: "What do I want to do while I'm here? What do I want to do with my time?"

And part of the answer for that should, I think, be: "I want to distract myself from the pain of meaninglessness. ~ John Green
Meaningfulness quotes by John Green
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
Meaningfulness quotes by Iben Dissing Sandahl
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
Meaningfulness quotes by Robert Fulghum
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. ~ Ernest Becker
Meaningfulness quotes by Ernest Becker
The ability to talk to people: that's the key to the world. It doesn't matter whether you are able to articulate your own thoughts and feelings and meanings or not. What matters is being able to make the noises that encourage others to feel comfortable, and the inquiries which present them with the opportunity to articulate their thoughts and feelings and meanings, the particulars of their existences, their passions, preoccupations, beliefs. If you can talk to people in this way, you can go - you can get - anywhere in this world, in life. ~ Sara Baume
Meaningfulness quotes by Sara Baume
And if that's the case
if we are our remembering selves
then it matters far less how we feel moment to moment with our children. They play rich and crucial roles in our life stories, generating both outsize highs and outsize lows. Without such complexity, we don't feel like we've amounted to much. "You don't have a good story until something deviates from the expected," says McAdams. "And raising children leads to some pretty unexpected happenings. ~ Jennifer Senior
Meaningfulness quotes by Jennifer Senior
It is certainly possible that an individual can, qua individual, suffer some failure of meaning, as in pathological boredom or depression. But any given social world is also a nexus of common significances, saliences, taboos, and a general shared orientation that can also either be sustained or can fail. Indeed one of the most interesting aspects of such a social condition, shared meaningfulness, or intelligibility, is that it can fail, go dead, lose its grip, and a very great deal of what interests Hegel is simply what such shared practical meaningfulness must be that it could fail, and how we should integrate our account of action into a fuller theory of the realization of such a condition and its failure. (His general name for the achievement and maintenance of such a form of intelligible life is "Sittlichkeit" and his case for this sort of priority of Sittlichkeit over strictly individualist accounts of mindedness in-action has not, I want to argue, been properly appreciated.) ~ Robert B. Pippin
Meaningfulness quotes by Robert B. Pippin
I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life. ~ Elizabeth Lesser
Meaningfulness quotes by Elizabeth Lesser
I'm left with the pages of my life just turning,
The story being filled slowly day by day,
But the end is approaching and it is out of my hands,
Hopefully I will reach my climax,
Hopefully I will be able to draw my conclusions,
Until then …
All I can do is just turn the page ~ Morris R. Gates
Meaningfulness quotes by Morris R. Gates
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
Meaningfulness quotes by Saul Kripke
He was not poor - he could afford ten candles & two baths a week. He wasn't going to throw himself in the Thames for the misery of it all and God knew most of London was worse off. All the same, he had a feeling life should not have been about ten candles and two baths a week. ~ Natasha Pulley
Meaningfulness quotes by Natasha Pulley
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
Meaningfulness quotes by Pfister
The beauty and meaningfulness of an ordinary life. ~ Richard Alan Carter
Meaningfulness quotes by Richard Alan Carter
A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth. ~ Abraham Maslow
Meaningfulness quotes by Abraham Maslow
Men in plural [ ... ] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves. ~ Hannah Arendt
Meaningfulness quotes by Hannah Arendt
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
Meaningfulness quotes by Peter Brook
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
Meaningfulness quotes by Vaclav Havel
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