Meaningful Life Quotes - Page 6

• Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.

  Eric Weiner

  Meaningful, Laughter, Happy Life

  Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.325, Random House

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• If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to- because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centred. What you are pursuing is meaning- a meaningful life... There are times when it will go so wrong that you will be barely alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Meaningful, Pursuit Of Happiness, Happy Times

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• There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful

  Sarah Kane

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Sobriety

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.220, A&C Black

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  What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

  Pericles

  Life, Education, Appreciation

  "Flicker to Flame: Living with Purpose, Meaning, and Happiness". Book by Jeffrey Thompson Parker, October 2006.

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• The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Your ability to overcome unfavorable situations will provide you with time to demonstrate your true strength and determination for success. Always set your standards high, your greatest achievements lie within the infinite feats you achieve in your life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Meaningful, Determination, Lying

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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• 'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful life for themselves, with or without the continuing presence of mental health symptoms.

  Geoff Shepherd

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Heart

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• What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

  Abraham Maslow

  Meaningful, Brother, Children

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• There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life.

  Joel Garreau

  Meaningful, Good Life, Three

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.260, Broadway Books

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• The worst enslaving trait of all is greed. I rail against the substitution of money for worth. The idea that the endless accumulation of dead money can furnish a meaningful life to sold-out souls is the supreme lie offered by the system of free enterprise.

  Gerry Spence

  Meaningful, Money, Lying

  Gerry Spence (2002). “Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life”, p.111, Macmillan

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• Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future.

  Bill Crawford

  Meaningful, Past, Creating

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• Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it to last a lifetime,they think something is wrong with them.Only now,when every other marriage ends in divorce,have people begun to understand that falling in love seldom grows into love,and that not even love can free a person from loneliness.And that sexual enjoyment does not make life meaningful.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Meaningful, Dream, Falling In Love

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• The church works best not as a power center, rather as a countercultural community - in the world but not of it - that shows others how to live the most fulfilled and meaningful life on earth. In modern society that means rejecting the false gods of independence, success, and pleasure and replacing them with love for God and neighbor.

  Philip Yancey

  Meaningful, Community, Independence

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• Life is meaningless; man's biggest challenge is to make it meaningful!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Meaningful, Men

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• If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living the gang and drugs has been directed to making positive what it means to be Chicano, human, man, woman, and on how to draw out the imagination and creativity that all people have.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Meaningful, Art, Creativity

  Interview with Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.

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• But most Canadians have recognized to a greater or lesser extent that despite much of the so-called progress of the affluent society, essential ingredients to a meaningful life seem to be either entirely lacking, or at best, difficult to grasp.

  Alex Campbell

  Meaningful, Progress, Essentials

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• Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

  Bernie Siegel

  Meaningful, Meaning Of Life, Alive

  Source: borderlessnewsandviews.com

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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

  Meaningful, Good Life, Life Is

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

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• I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn't realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life.

  Arnold Palmer

  Meaningful, Years, Forests

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• Deep human connection is ... the purpose and the result of a meaningful life - and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.

  Melinda Gates

  Meaningful, Generosity, Inspire

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• Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Meaningful, Gratitude, Grateful

  "Is Gratitude the Path to a Better World?". Interview with Jill Suttie, greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 29, 2013.

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• If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Meaningful, Meaning Of Life, Metaphysical

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then you might gain that great tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.

  James C. Collins

  Meaningful, Hands, Creating

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• The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power, or goodness. A life that does this is pregnant with meaning, and if God comes at the end, such a life is sacred.

  Martin Seligman

  Meaningful, Good Life, Signatures

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.224, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Meaningful, Knows, Without Love

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• I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life.

  Sandra Bullock

  Meaningful, Meaning Of Life, Needs

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