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• As long as you believe what you’re doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step.

  Arlene Blum

  Believe, Cutting, Long

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• Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogenous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in time, or that space is relative to the psyche.

  Carl Jung

  Space, Independence, Events

  Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, Psychology Press

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• The very foundation of private property and free contracting wears away in a nation in which its most vital, most concrete, most meaningful types of private property and free contracting disappear from the moral horizon of the people.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  People, Foundation, Horizon

  Joseph A. Schumpeter (2013). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.141, Routledge

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• Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?

  Ellen Willis

  Ice Cream, People, May

  "Women and the Myth of Consumerism". Book by Ellen Willis, Ramparts, 1969.

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• [P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne its fruit, it has another, more meaningful and weightier name. We call it hatred.

  Georges Bernanos

  Names, Hatred, Soul

  Georges Bernanos (1999). “The Impostor”, p.156, U of Nebraska Press

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• No matter what techniques I use, I still want to go after the eternal, meaningful aspects of painting.

  Dan Thompson

  Technique, Use, Want

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• The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.

  S. T. Joshi

  Religious, Atheist, Hands

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• There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

  Rollo May

  Individual, Said

  "Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence". Book by Rollo May, ch. 11: The Humanity of the Rebel, 1972.

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• Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.

  Chris Guillebeau

  People, Feelings, World

  Chris Guillebeau (2010). “The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World”, p.125, Penguin

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• Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Beautiful, Nature, Rain

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• I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

  John Baldessari

  Art, Moving, Thinking

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions.

  Donna Farhi

  Attention, Care, Our Actions

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.15, Macmillan

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• It should be clear to everyone that the nation's steadfast policy should afford every American of working age a realistic opportunity to acquire the ownership and control of some meaningful form of property in a growing national economy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wisdom, Opportunity, Age

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• Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly-to fully know and be fully known by another-we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in our most intimate relationships and in our selves.

  Arianna Huffington

  Dark, Intimate Relationships, Self

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• One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long.

  Bill Crawford

  Creating, Keys, Long

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• The fact that other countries spy on their own people or spy on each other does not address the fact that the US is engaged in massive, bulk collection to the tune of 70.3 million telecommunications a month in France of perfectly innocent people. That has nothing to do with protecting the United States, and has nothing to do with really gathering any kind of meaningful intelligence on France. It is an overreach ... and I think the other countries are justifiably outraged .... As one of our founders said: Those who choose between liberty and security deserve neither.

  Jesselyn Radack

  Country, Thinking, People

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• Never give up. Don't let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it.
  Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals.
  Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

  Li Cunxin

  Letting Go, Dream, Giving Up

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• To me thin people never had any meaningful problems.

  Dorothy Cannell

  People, Weight, Problem

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• If life is envisioned as a continuously running motion picture, the keeping of a notebook stops the action and allows a meaningful scene to be explored frame by frame.

  Jo Coudert

  Notebook, Running, Action

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.99, iUniverse

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• Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Racing, Training, Demand

  "Once a Runner: A Novel". Book by John L. Parker, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. 2009.

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• The world of money, of numbers and stock markets and interest rates and credit cards, seems on the surface about as far as it could be from the world of spirituality, of seeking meaningful answers to the big questions of life. ... But these two worlds must flow in and out of each other, because it takes both money and spiritual understanding to sustain it. Truly speaking, what determines where our money with its awesome power will go, and what it will do for ourselves and others? If we listen, those answers come from the center of our being, from who we really are.

  Suze Orman

  Spiritual, Money, Numbers

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• I always assumed that at some point I would have to quit making jokes, get a real job and do something meaningful and productive that would actually benefit society. Fortunately this never happened.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Real, Benefits

  "The Phil Factor Interview with Dave Barry! (yes, that Dave Barry)". thephilfactor.com. September 10, 2013.

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• As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.

  Audre Lorde

  Acceptance, Self, Feminist

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• What would possess a family where's there's a husband and wife to want 12 kids or 18 kids? That's just what they feel is meaningful to them. Their family. Expanding a family.

  Nadya Suleman

  Husband, Kids, Wife

  "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.

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• For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.

  Shawn Achor

  Thinking, Past, Two

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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