Meaningful Activities Quotes

When you spend your life doing what you love to do, you are nourishing your Soul. It matters not what you do, only that you love whatever you happen to do.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

The majority prove their worth by keeping busy. A busy life is the nearest thing to a purposeful life.

After that demonstration everybody was thinking, what's going to happen to these wonderful men who have been so useful to us? We have to give people something to do with life.

I always make time for the things that are important to me.

Idleness, we are accustomed to say, is the root of all evil. To prevent this evil, work is recommended.... Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life.

Ten minutes are not just one-sixth of your hourly pay; ten minutes is a piece of yourself. Divide yourself into ten units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activities. Most things still remain to be done.

It seems to me that the older I get, the more running around I do with less satisfaction, just spinning my wheels.

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

What we call stress is just extension of being busy without meaning. When you do things that are not meaningful to you, just to get the sense of completion, just to feel like you got something done, your spirit feels empty. So, the most important thing for people to realize is that you have to control the flow of information in your life.

One thing is certain: you will find plenty of worthwhile things to do. You will not be bored, or lack fulfillment in your life. Most important of all, you will know that you have not lived and died for nothing, because you will have become part of the great tradition of those who have responded to the amount of pain and suffering in the universe by trying to make the world a better place.

I think that if you're doing something that's important, that's significant in your life, it takes some of the pain away.

Resist doing things that have no meaning for life.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Why sit on your butt watching 'Jersey Shore' when you can learn to paint a beautiful picture?

What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.

We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying... I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.

Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.

I feel like I could devote myself to far more important things than writing novels.

Cultivate the habit of thinking ahead, and of anticipating the necessary and immediate consequences of all your actions.... Likewise in your pleasures, ask yourself what such and such an amusement leads to, as it is essential to have an objective in everything you do. Any pastime that contributes nothing to bodily strength or to mental alertness is a totally ridiculous, not to say, idiotic, pleasure.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.

I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.