Meaningful Quotes

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
Jennifer Lopez

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
Walter Anderson

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Rene Magritte

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.
Rene Magritte

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Walter Benjamin

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
Terence

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
Walter Benjamin

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.
Terence

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Look back, and smile on perils past.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
Margaret J. Wheatley

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

We had some ranting about the meaning of nature, ... And Jewel is more defending Treadwell's position, that there is harmony in the universe and the only disturbing element is human beings. I don't see it that way
Werner Herzog

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
Bill Gates

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

“The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.”
Benito Mussolini

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

My life needs editing.
Mort Sahl

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
Truman Capote

Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
David Hockney

Let us have peace.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.
Vladimir Lenin

Awards are so unnecessary, because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
Natalie Portman

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.
Natalie Portman

I do not choose that my grave should be dug while I am still alive.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Elizabeth Bowen

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.
Sean Connery

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.
Douglas Horton

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Octavio Paz

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

We have the party chair from every state. If you can demonstrate the security of doing that at the Democratic National Convention, why can't we do this somewhere else?
Bill Taylor

If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results
Anthony Robbins

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth.
Kim Elizabeth

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone has something to give.
Barbara Bush