Meaningful
Every moment offers a new possibility of transformation.
Author: Joseph CampbellTopics: Famous, Meaningful
Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror but my God you’re alive and it’s spectacular.
Author: Joseph CampbellTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
Mythology is not a matter of fantasy, but rather a matter of meaning.
Author: Joseph CampbellTopics: Famous, Meaningful
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Author: Joseph CampbellTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to become sharper.
Author: Joseph CampbellTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
Author: Joseph CampbellTopics: Ability, Famous, Meaningful
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Author: Joseph CampbellTopics: Famous, Life, Meaningful
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Author: Joseph CampbellTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
Author: Joseph CampbellTopics: Famous, Meaningful
The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.
Author: Joseph CampbellTopics: Behavior, Famous, Meaningful
Football is a sport where the collective intelligence of the players is as important as their individual skills.
Author: Carlo AncelottiTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Skills
I have a lot of power. Here, I can decide: training at six in the morning! Training 11 in the night! But my style is not to impose. I would like to convince the players of what they are doing. This takes more time.
Author: Carlo AncelottiTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Powerful
The owner or president is the person who controls the club. The coach’s job is to keep him happy. But the key to success, as a manager, is your relationship with the players. Important clubs and important players succeed when the environment is correct. The players must enjoy their work and feel free to express their talents.
Author: Carlo AncelottiTopics: Acceptable, Famous, Meaningful
I have worked with some of the most important players, like Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic, Kaka, Zidane, but the best are easy to work with because they are so professional. Their winning mentality, professionalism, helps the manager. Of course, sometimes I become angry, but usually my relationship with the players is calm.
Author: Carlo AncelottiTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
Comparing Isco to Zidane isn’t ridiculous. He is very close to Zidane in terms of ability, they have a lot of similarities. Zidane is obviously in a better position to judge, and he said Isco isn’t there yet but could come close in the future.
Author: Carlo AncelottiTopics: Ability, Change, Famous, Meaningful
I started this job in 1995, and I felt the same pressure in my first day, with my first team, Reggiana, in the Second Division, as I feel now. Nothing has changed, but what changes are the number of games, especially for top teams. For this reason, the work has pressure. But only this.
Author: Carlo AncelottiTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
I’m not interested in what the critics have to say. I’m interested in making my players believe in themselves.
Author: Carlo AncelottiTopics: Ability, Famous, Meaningful
Why do I regret Chelsea? I’m the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I’ve found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived!
Author: Carlo AncelottiTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
I don’t think I was a good model. I think I was born to emote and act. I would walk down the ramp and smile and they used to say, ‘Give us a blank look.’ It was really difficult not to smile.
Author: Anushka SharmaTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
When I meet someone from the army background, there is an instant connection. We live in the best five-star hotels of the world, but outside my home I will be equally comfortable in any army cantonment or army guest house. Telling my friends that my father was in the army was like telling them that he is the second-richest man in the world.
Author: Anushka SharmaTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
Life was so easy before I became an actor. I could talk to anyone, and no one bothered. I keep thinking to myself, ‘Should I not be myself,’ but I won’t do that.
Author: Anushka SharmaTopics: Famous, Life, Meaningful
Sometimes I get extremely disturbed with the things that are written. But you can’t do anything about it. As a celebrity, you are putting yourself out there to be judged, and that’s fine. I am now learning not to get affected by such things. I am building my career and making choices that I think are right while minding my own business.
Author: Anushka SharmaTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
Boys used to call me Soda in school days. Soda means ‘serving officers daughters association.’ I miss those days when I had a very protected life: one could get close and bond with other army people that they gradually would become your extended family.
Author: Anushka SharmaTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Positive
Catania was a real learning curve. I grew amid difficulties. In terms of courage and ideas, a lot about my Atleti comes from Italy.
Author: Diego SimeoneTopics: Famous, Learning, Meaningful
With any possibly erroneous decision, you can always look back and think you could’ve done something differently – but always with the benefit of hindsight.
Author: Diego SimeoneTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
He who brings a style to a club that can’t carry it out, he is not a good manager, because he is attacking the club that hires him.
Author: Diego SimeoneTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
The teams that defend well are as important as those that attack well. If you don’t concede goals it is much easier to win but it is all about having balance.
Author: Diego SimeoneTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
Football is like hunting. One second can change it all, but it’s not just any second, it’s a flash. The prey is there and suddenly then it’s not. In an instant it’s over – you won’t have the chance again. You need to know which one precise second to train for, and to understand that moment.
Author: Diego SimeoneTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.
Author: Diego SimeoneTopics: Famous, Meaningful
Maybe the key aspect of imposing fear to the opposition is to make them understand that we have no fear.
Author: Diego SimeoneTopics: Ability, Famous, Meaningful
In Paris, when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren’t too pleased with it. They didn’t like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris, as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.
Author: Ingrid BergmanTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
Cancer victims who don’t accept their fate, who don’t learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Author: Ingrid BergmanTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
I don’t think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
Author: Ingrid BergmanTopics: Ability, Famous, Meaningful
I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t shut up.
Author: Ingrid BergmanTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
You must train your intuition – you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
Author: Ingrid BergmanTopics: Experiences, Famous, Meaningful

I have often wondered how it is that I never lost my love for acting. It has been with me all my life, and the older I get, the more I feel that this is the only thing I can do.
Author: Ingrid BergmanTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Positive
Adventures may be for the adventurous, but home is where the real things are sown and reaped, where in the end the real things happen.
Author: May SartonTopics: adventure, Famous, Meaningful
Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning’s work.
Author: May SartonTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
It’s extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other – there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great.
Author: May SartonTopics: Achievement, Famous, Great, Meaningful
Sometimes the more we try to understand, the less we know.
Author: May SartonTopics: Famous, Meaningful
It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can’t, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.
Author: May SartonTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Time
Joy, happiness … we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections … to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.
Author: May SartonTopics: Famous, Happiness, Meaningful
Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
Author: May SartonTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.
Author: May SartonTopics: Age, Famous, Meaningful
Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
Author: May SartonTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.
Author: May SartonTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.
Author: May SartonTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
Author: May SartonTopics: Famous, Meaningful
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace
Author: May SartonTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
I was head of the Cold Weather Warfare unit within the Special Boat Service. My job was to do extreme climbs, learn about new technology, and create new ideas on how to operate in those conditions.
Author: Nirmal PurjaTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
What I am humble and proud about is that I was able to show a path, simply to demonstrate what could be possible with 8,000-meter peaks. Now that the paradigm has shifted, more people can relate to that possibility, and it should be easier next time to conceptualize and achieve it.
Author: Nirmal PurjaTopics: Famous, Humble, Meaningful
Funding has been the hardest part, and my wife has been extremely supportive both when I decided to leave my job, and even when I re-mortgaged our home and put equity into the project. I am lucky to have such a loving and supportive partner.
Author: Nirmal PurjaTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
I disagree with it, but people come to Everest carrying a huge financial burden. Not only that, but they have spent more than two months and a lot of effort to be ready. That’s why everybody rushes for the top.
Author: Nirmal PurjaTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
I convinced my wife to let me climb Everest. I emptied my savings and took out a loan so I could afford to make the trip. I wanted to do it solo and I pushed myself too hard. I was carrying too much gear and got altitude sickness. I meditated to the point where I was feeling better, but didn’t make it up, because I got involved with a rescue.
Author: Nirmal PurjaTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
Sherpa were always involved with the setting of the lines, but they never got the platform to tell any story, I think. And so these people have always remained in the shadow. But now obviously with the internet, the whole platform and everything, people can hold a light these days.
Author: Nirmal PurjaTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
But hey, man, if I summited K2 in winter, without oxygen, frost-nipped fingers are a small price to pay. It was worth it. Think about it, things could have been a lot worse.
Author: Nirmal PurjaTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
People are only limited by their imagination. If you don’t dream then you won’t do it. Human beings are capable of doing amazing things.
Author: Nirmal PurjaTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
It’s part of my Special Forces training. You’re taught to come up with a solutions, not look for excuses.
Author: Nirmal PurjaTopics: Famous, Meaningful
An enlightened mind can free itself from chains that bind.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Meaningful
Spain, must we some day tell Filipinas that thou hast no ear for her woes and that if she wishes to be saved she must redeem herself?
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Experiences, Famous, Meaningful
China will consider herself fortunate if she succeeds in keeping herself intact and is not dismembered or partitioned among the European powers that are colonizing the continent of Asia.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Acceptable, Famous, Meaningful
Is it not sad, I said to my countrymen, that we have to learn from a foreigner about ourselves? Thanks to the German scholars we get accurate information about ourselves, and when everything in our country has been destroyed and we wish to verify the historical correctness of certain facts we shall have to come to Germany to search for these facts, in German museums and books!
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
My mother is not a woman of ordinary culture. She knows literature and speaks Spanish better than I do. She even corrected my poems and gave me advice when I was studying rhetoric.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Advice, Famous, Meaningful
The Philippines, owing to its geographical position and the character of its numerous inhabitants, can be held by a handful of men.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Characters, Famous, Meaningful
There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking – the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
It is probable that England will look favorably upon the independence of the Philippines, for it will open their ports to her and afford greater freedom to her commerce.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Freedom, Meaningful
I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
Today is Christmas Eve. Whether or not Christ was born exactly on this date is not important. But chronological accuracy has nothing to do with tonight’s event. A grand genius had been born who preached truth and love; who suffered because of his mission; and on account of his sufferings the world has become better, if not saved. Only it gives me nausea to see how some people abuse his name to commit numerous crimes. If he is in heaven, he will certainly protest!
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
I don’t see why I should bow my head when I could hold it high, or place it in the hands of my enemies when I can defeat them.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Enemy, Famous, Meaningful
It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others… Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Believes, Dream, Famous, Meaningful
The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Government, Meaningful
As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, God, Meaningful

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land. You who have it to see, welcome it and forget not those who have fallen during the night.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Positive
I want to show to those who deprive people the right to love of country, that when we know how to sacrifice ourselves for our duties and convictions, death does not matter if one dies for those one loves – for his country and for others dear to him.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Meaningful
Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: ‘Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.’
Author: Jose RizalTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Author: Yuvraj SinghTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he’s the rock star, so let him get married first; then I’ll think about myself.
Author: Yuvraj SinghTopics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Meaningful
No matter what people say, about what I did, about what I am like… They say you are not dedicated or hardworking. A lot of people say things about me, but they don’t realise I have played 250 games. It’s not like you just land up in the team, sit down and play 250 games. You can’t survive like that in international cricket.
Author: Yuvraj SinghTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
Topics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
Topics: Acceptable, Famous, Meaningful
Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can’t say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, ‘If they can be cured, why can’t I be?’
Author: Yuvraj SinghTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Meaningful