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• Life does not wait: Whether we spend our lives meaningfully or not, the time will be used up moment by moment.

  Dalai Lama

  Waiting, Meaning Of Life, Doe

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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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• 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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• We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

  Peter Singer

  Meaningful, People, Generations

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• For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

  Mordecai Richler

  Meaningful, Book, Addiction

  Mordecai Richler (1974). “Notes on an endangered species and others”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be.

  Jessica Taylor

  Fate, Journey, Destiny

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• Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life.  With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.

  Martin Seligman

  Meaningful, Optimism, Belief

  Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.11, Vintage

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• It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.

  Audre Lorde

  Meaningful, Mistake, Destiny

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain—her whole brain—that develop skills that lead to better relationships, better mental health, and more meaningful lives. You could call it brain sculpting, or brain nourishing, or brain building. Whatever phrase you prefer, the point is crucial, and thrilling: as a result of the words we use and the actions we take, children’s brains will actually change, and be built, as they undergo new experiences.

  Daniel J. Siegel

  Meaningful, Children, New Experiences

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• Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

  Lewis Mumford

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Revenge

  "The Conduct Of Life" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 1, 1951.

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• Have you ever wished you were somebody else? We all have at some point. But eventually we come to realize that the body, mind and circumstances we were born with - even if they seem 'imperfect' to us - can all be used to create a beautiful and meaningful life. The choice is always ours - continue to wish - or accept and improve upon the gifts we've been given.

  Ron Atchison

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Choices

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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. When we find new eyes, the unsuspected blessing in work we have done for many years may take us completely by surprise. We can see life in many ways: with the eye, with the mind, with the intuition. But perhaps it is only those who speak the language of meaning, who have remembered how to see with the heart, that life is ever deeply known or served.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Meaningful, Eye, Heart

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• It’s interesting that in the Bible, in the book of Ecclesiastes, the only practical advice given about living a meaningful life is to find a job you like, enjoy your marriage, and obey God. It’s as though God is saying, Write a good story, take somebody with you, and let me help.

  Donald Miller

  Meaningful, Jobs, Book

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• Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy.

  Dalai Lama

  Meaningful, Compassion, Lasting Happiness

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• We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures. It is only through having cultures that mankind on this earth has an ordered and meaningful life. Music and drama are two of the many important manifestation of a culture. They are important because they represent the expressions emanating from the power of human artistic creativity

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Meaningful, Drama, Creativity

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• You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into a positive energy that empowers you and makes life meaningful.

  Nhat Hanh

  Meaningful, Intelligent, Empowering

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• I love you,Nora. Whatever happens, promise me you'll remember that. I don't care why you came into my life,only that you did. I don't remember all the things i did wrong. I remember what i did right, I remember you. You made my life meaningful. You made my life special.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Meaningful, Love You, Remember You

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• A good peace, a solid peace, a peace in which communities can flourish, can only be built when we ask ourselves and each other to be more than just good, and better than just strong. And a good life, a meaningful life, a life in which we can enjoy the world and live with purpose, can only be built if we do more than live for ourselves.

  Eric Greitens

  Meaningful, Strong, Good Life

  FaceBook post by Eric Greitens from Sep 23, 2015

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  Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

  Anton Chekhov

  Meaningful, Silly, Healthy

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• I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Real

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• I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Meaningful, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• If one can create a purposeful, meaningful life then there's no room for drugs or alcohol. It's not on the list anymore.

  Mackenzie Phillips

  Meaningful, Alcohol, Drug

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• People's lives, meaningful lives derive from desire, from passion, from education, from knowledge, from growing up being inspired by people and believing that you can do things and that you should want to do things. And people encouraging you to try to do things.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Meaningful, Growing Up, Believe

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Violence maims not only the body but also the mind and spirit. As Pierre Bourdieu has argued, it lies "on the side of belief and persuasion." If we are to counter violence by offering young people ways to think differently about their world and the choices before them, they must be empowered to recognize themselves in any analysis of violence, and in doing so to acknowledge that it speaks to their lives meaningfully.

  Henry Giroux

  Lying, Thinking, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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