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• I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

  Herb Goldberg

  Hate, Self, Guilt

  Herb Goldberg (1977). “The Hazards of Being Male: Surviving the Myth of Masculine Privilege”

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• First and foremost, you do not have to live up to or emulate the lives of any of your predecessors. But at the very least, you should know about them. You will have your own life, interests, and ideas of what you want or do not want in life. Do what you enjoy doing. Be honest with yourself and others. Don't think of satisfying anyone: your elders, peers, government, religion, or children who will come after you. Develop meaningful ideals, and become conscious of others, their existence, and their lives.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

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• We become powerful in the face of our fears when we have a sense that we make a difference in this world. We are all meaningful participants in this Universe and worthy of giving and receiving love. Some affirmations of purpose are: I know that I count and I act as though I do. I spread warmth and love everywhere I go. I am a healing force in the Universe.

  Susan Jeffers

  Powerful, Healing, Differences

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• Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

  Adora Svitak

  Encouragement, Growing Up, People

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• The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

  Diane Ackerman

  Reality, Tears, Patterns

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of the Senses”, p.14, Vintage

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• Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose?

  Tom DeLay

  Scary, Doe, Purpose

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• Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.

  Woody Allen

  Sports, Religious, Art

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• Happiness isn't found in some finite checklist of goals that we can diligently complete and then coast. It's how we live our lives in the process. That's why the four pillars of happiness are faith, family, community and meaningful work. Those are priorities we have to keep investing in.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Goal, Community, Priorities

  "Q&A: 'The Conservative Heart'" by Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.

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• When you are not sure on what to do, choose a life that is most meaningful to you and make it a habit.

  Rita Zahara

  Life, Habit, Not Sure

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• ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.

  John Macmurray

  Sake, Action

  John Macmurray (1961). “The Form of the Personal”

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• A married guy is responsible for everything, no matter what. Women, thanks to their having been oppressed all these years, are blameless, free as birds, and all the dirt they do is the result of premenstrual syndrome or postmenstrual stress or menopause or emotional disempowerment by their fathers or low expectations by their teachers or latent unspoken sexual harassment in the workplace, or some other airy excuse. The guy alone is responsible for every day of marriage that is less than marvelous and meaningful.

  Garrison Keillor

  Teacher, Stress, Father

  Garrison Keillor (1994). “The Book of Guys: Stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Stutters and snorts are meaningful but not usually referential.

  Mason Cooley

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• [Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

  Nora Ephron

  Educational, College, America

  Nora Ephron (1991). “Nora Ephron Collected”

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• It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won.

  Hannah Arendt

  Freedom, Automation, Doe

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• In today's world parents find themselves at the mercy of a society which imposes pressures and priorities that allow neither timenor place for meaningful activities and relations between children and adults, which downgrade the role of parents and the functions of parenthood, and which prevent the parent from doing things he wants to do as a guide, friend, and companion to his children.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Children, Priorities, Parent

  Urie bronfenbrenner (1978). “2 Wrlds Childhood”, Pocket Books

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• Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs.... Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one acts and chooses, aware of a meaningful past and free to shape one's future.

  Gerda Lerner

  Moving, Thinking, Past

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• There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.

  Max De Pree

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• Nothing meaningful or lasting comes without working hard at it.

  Rick Pitino

  Motivational, Lasting, Hard

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

  Harvey Cox

  Christian, Religious, Culture

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• We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.

  Wendy Lesser

  Loss, Order, Literature

  Wendy Lesser (2014). “Why I Read: The Serious Pleasure of Books”, p.40, Macmillan

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• A good writer gets better only by learning to cut, to remove the ornamental, the descriptive, the narrative, and especially the deeply felt and meaningful. What remains? The story remains.

  David Mamet

  Cutting, Get Better, Stories

  David Mamet (1991). “On Directing Film”, Penguin Group USA

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• Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad outlook of a group are visible,... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured.

  Meyer Schapiro

  Religious, Art, Emotional

  Meyer Schapiro (1994). “Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society”

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• The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In supporting them, we are showing solidarity with working people, for whom these are luxuries and not givens.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Dream, Luxury, People

  Irena Klepfisz (1990). “Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes”

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• I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody else. And that's what I love about random words and phrases taken out of context: everyone applies their own context. If you want to apply something political or meaningful to a word I wrote on the side of the wall, then it's up to you.

  Ben Eine

  Wall, Taken, Adventure

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why are people reading so many books about religion? It's because they want answers. The answers are no longer just passed down from generation to generation. It's harder for people. In effect, you have to roll up your sleeve and ask the questions. But if you do it, if you forge your own identity, it can be much more personal and much more meaningful to you.

  Bruce Feiler

  Religious, Book, Reading

  "Writer Bruce Feiler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. March 20, 2013.

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