Meaningful Quotes - Page 7

• I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world.

  Meg Rosoff

  Thinking, Journey, Long

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• You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.

  Annie Lennox

  Meaning Of Life, Like You, Life Worth Living

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• One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.

  Tad R. Callister

  Prayer, Children, Parent

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• If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?

  Anna Friel

  Beautiful, Oil, Next

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• Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.

  Joshua Rogers

  Book, Reading, Creativity

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• There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

  Maynard Webb

  Jobs, Talent, Meaningful Work

  "The Next Killer App: Work" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2010.

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• Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they can seldom be broken. Ours is to place our areas of love in proper perspective. Meaningful love always works for our eternal progress and not against it.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Strong, Evil, Broken

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• To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence.

  Tariq Ali

  Fighting, Justice, Democracy

  Tariq Ali (2003). “The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity”, p.3, Verso

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• I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

  Al Seckel

  Impact, Counter Culture, Movement

  "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• Another misconception is that if we truly loved someone, we will never finish with our grief, as if continued sorrow is a testimonial to our love. But true love does not need grief to support its truth. Love can last in a healthy and meaningful way, once our grief is dispelled. We can honor our dead more by the quality of our continued living than by our constantly remembering the past.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Grief, Grieving, Past

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• Life is too meaningful to die.

  Kedar Joshi

  Life, Purpose, Dies

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• What would you love to achieve and accomplish? What would you feel great about doing in your life? What meaningful goals would you wish to reach? Imagine achieving and accomplishing everything that you would wish [dream] for. Picture yourself reaching your highest aspirations and your most meaningful goals. Visualize yourself speaking and acting the way you would wish with the highest and best character traits.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Dream, Character, Goal

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• Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."

  Luther Standing Bear

  Native American, Space, Talking

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• L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

  James Luther Adams

  Attitude, Optimism, Achievement

  James Luther Adams (1976). “On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Skills, Yield

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make.

  Stephen Covey

  Commitment, What Matters, Years

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• Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

  Ansel Adams

  Feelings, Growing, Coincidence

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• Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.

  Dan Quayle

  Agriculture, Years, Levels

  "Republican rivals focus on farm crisis" by David Yepsen, www.cnn.com. August 12, 1999.

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• Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Lovely, Tears

  "David Hockney". Book by Marco Livingstone, 1976.

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• Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

  Meher Baba

  Life, Reality, Endure

  Meher Baba, A. K. Hajra (1969). “Life is a Jest”

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• Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

  Martin Seligman

  Good Life, Life Is, Pleasant

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.

  Henrietta Mears

  Philosophy, Educational, Goal

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• What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

  Tim Ferriss

  Answers, Want, Produce

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• I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

  Yann Martel

  Believe, Order, Giving

  Marilyn Herbert, Yann Martel (2005). “Life of Pi”, p.62, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

  Anthony H. Cordesman

  War, Civilization, Differences

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