Meaningfulness Quotes

“Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.”
― Oliver North, Counterfeit Lies

“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, Ten Poems to Open Your Heart

“Real life is to be found in natural things that have meaning.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1

“If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“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, What On Earth Have I Done?: Stories, Observations, and Affirmations

“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

“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, A Damaged Mirror

“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

“even admirable human desires for love, for belonging, and for meaning can be manipulated by unscrupulous individuals to benefit themselves”
― Noah Berlatsky

“Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires questing. Questing provides the meaning that we seek, a purpose to justify the inevitable struggle to live knowing the absurdity that we must die.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a physical and social world and develop a personal code of survival. In essence, we all become self-styled sages, creating our own book of wisdom based upon our studied observations and practical knowledge gleaned from living and learning. What we quickly discover is that no textbook exist how to conduct our life, because the world has yet to produce a perfect person – an ideal observer – whom is capable of handing down a concrete exemplar of epistemic virtues. We each draw upon the guiding knowledge, theories, and advice available for us in order to explore the paradoxes, ironies, inconsistencies, and the absurdities encountered while living in a supernatural world. We mold our personal collection of information into a practical practicum how to live and die. Each day we define and redefine who we are, determine how we will react today, and chart our quest into an uncertain future.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“However, one day, this shallow living will not be enough for you. You are gifted with a questioning mind that will marvel at the deepest parts of the world around you. It will crave divine understanding because you are part of the divine whole, and it is the nature of the soul to seek to return to its spiritual state.”
― Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century

“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, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

“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, Jag

“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, Nothing is here...

“To have a meaningful look on your face, you need to have a meaningful emotions deep inside you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“When an image depends on the next for a complete meaning, it moves the story and audience along without choking them with pathos”
― Val Uchendu

“A principled life begins by accepting the evident truth that we must die. Death becomes us. Knowledge of the impermanence of our existence reassures us that how we live does make a difference. Because our allotted time for living is finite, we must make the most of each day.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Tremendously meaningful outreach begins with how you choose to see the world.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The trappings of success bring the opposite of success in the ways most meaningful to people's lives.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Neurotypical - Is the Word Useful? And/or Meaningful

The word itself doesn't make sense - being used to describe "others" (people who aren’t on the spectrum) society is a mixture of different sorts of people and rather than lumping people into one "group" (neurotypical society, neurotypicals, NTS) wouldn't it be best to say people who don't have autism? People who aren't on spectrum? It has also been used as word to "attack” people who don't have autism which surely is reverse prejudice? Two wrongs certainly don’t make a right in this case.

I like people on the basis of being people it doesn't matter who they are or were they come from I like them for their personalities not because of anything other – human beings are all unique and that means we are all equal in the world.”
― Paul Isaacs, Living Through the Haze

“Everything has a hidden secret meaning to be revealed or to be sealed.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Usability is not only about ease of use but also about bringing something meaningful, having an objective in common with the user.”
― Marcus Österberg, Web Strategy for Everyone

“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

“A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls