Meaningful Life Quotes - Page 4

• In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

  Tom Bodett

  Life, Encouraging, Education

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• For everything you gain, you lose something.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  I Miss You, Missing You, Missing Someone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.267, Рипол Классик

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• The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

  Alfred Adler

  Self Esteem, Life Is Good, Danger In Life

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• If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won't like you. It may not be easy, but it's essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Meaningful, Art, Hurt

  Cheryl Richardson (2012). “21 Days to Master Extreme Self-Care”, p.7, Hay House, Inc

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• An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life.

  Bernie Siegel

  Meaningful, Wake Up, Awareness

  Bernie S. Siegel (2011). “Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Meaningful, Sex

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• Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Meaningful, World, May

  Terry Tempest Williams (2001). “Leap”, Vintage

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• At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that expresses itself by becoming the blessing.

  Ann Voskamp

  Meaningful, Gratitude, Blessing

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• Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life where I dwell delighted; for, dark as my path may seem to them, I carry a magic light in my heart. Faith, the spiritual strong searchlight, illumines the way, and although sinister doubts lurk in the shadow, I walk unafraid towards the Enchanted Wood where the foliage is always green, where joy abides, where nightingales nest and sing, and where life and death are one in the Presence of the Lord.

  Helen Keller

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Strong

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• A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing.

  Bill Crawford

  Meaningful, Skills, Want

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• Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Meaningful, Courage, Pride

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• Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Positive, Meaningful, Kitchen Table

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• The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Meaningful, Men, Poetry

  1958 In the Saturday Review, 22 Mar.

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• Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

  Donald Miller

  Meaningful, Cheating, Telling The Truth

  Twitter post from Dec 08, 2015

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• The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can be built around the machine but it is doubtful that a meaningful life can be produced by it.... When man worships at the feet of avalas creations. When he feels the wind blowing through him on a high peak or sleeps under a closely matted white bark pine in an exposed basin, he is apt to find his relationship to the universe.

  William O. Douglas

  Meaningful, Sleep, Journey

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• I kind of look at what's on the T-shirts and I see another solution, which also worries me. I see "Just do it." "No fear." - this kind of suppressive response to the treacle that the culture tries to define for us as a meaningful life also blows up on you. "No fear" is not something that you should put on your shirt. How about "I can hold my fear and still connect with you"? Put that on your shirt. "It's okay to be me, with all of my history." Put that on your shirt.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Meaningful, Blow, Worry

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think we'll start defining wealth and success differently and develop new approaches to consumption. Things that have always signified wealth and security - home ownership, new cars, luxury goods - have become a burden for many people and will be replaced by more experiential consumption like travel and recreation, self-improvement, and so on. By divesting themselves of certain big-ticket possessions that have been keeping them tied down, people will gain a new freedom to live more meaningful lives. Changes in consumption and lifestyle are key to Great Resets.

  Richard Florida

  Meaningful, Life Changing, Home

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I think everyone is always asking themselves, How is my work meaningful, how is my life meaningful? As I get older, I feel like who I am as a person and a citizen is more important than who I am in my work. But I do think it reframed slightly for me, how much I have to care about a project in order to want to do it. Sometimes, obviously, you have a take a job for money. But I think I'm quicker now when I get a script that's, say, borderline misogynist, I'm not going to go in for it. I'm thinking more about what I'm putting into the world.

  Zoe Kazan

  Meaningful, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Now we're in a very different economy. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s American management started to do the right things. There was extraordinary investment in technology. The dominant questions now are less how to do it better, how to manage better, how to make the economy better, than how to have fuller and more meaningful lives. Because the irony is, now that we've come through this great transition, even though our organizations and our people are extraordinarily productive, many feel that the nonwork side of life is very thin.

  Robert Reich

  Meaningful, Technology, People

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• This whole notion of job training centers with the government in charge of making sure you know what to do when certain jobs are lost and new jobs come along? That's not how people have meaningful lives.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Meaningful, Jobs, Government

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We are likely to feel better when we go to bed tonight if we have an internal sense that we spent our lives meaningfully today.

  Marianne Williamson

  Feel Better, Bed, Meaning Of Life

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• A meaningful life is not a popularity contest. Do what in your heart you believe to be the right thing, and you may or may not get immediate approval from the world. Do it anyway.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Believe

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Mar 30, 2013

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• For us to make sure that we have full lives, meaningful lives, we will have to elevate our unique human qualities. And I think we know now, we can see clearly what makes us different from machines. And that's why the future is enhanced humanity.

  Garry Kasparov

  Meaningful, Unique, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'm now nearly 79. At 16 I took responsibility for Tibet and lost my freedom. At 24 I lost my country and became a refugee. I've met difficulties, but as the saying goes: 'Wherever you're happy, you can call home, and whoever is kind to you is like your parents.' I've been happy and at home in the world at large. Living a meaningful life isn't just a matter of money; it's about dedicating your life to helping others.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Country, Home

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• It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it.

  Cesar Chavez

  Meaningful, Jesus, Struggle

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.157, Penguin

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