Meaningful Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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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• At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Heart, Losing, Terror

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• Nine different people gathered and became like a family. To me, it is a very meaningful tie.

  Im Yoona

  Ties, People, Different

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• It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.

  Bell Hooks

  Women, Home, Space

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.61, Routledge

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• In each meditation session, we gather knowledge about the mind through observation, questioning, and testing. We do this over and over, until we gradually develop a meaningful understanding of our own mind.

  Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

  Knowledge, Meditation, Understanding

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• If grandparents want to have a meaningful and constructive role, the first lesson they must learn is that becoming a grandparent is not having a second chance at parenthood!

  Eda LeShan

  Second Chance, Grandparent, Firsts

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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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• People will continue to search for answers to universal and perplexing problems. But to find meaningful answers, one must first know what questions to ask.

  Jacque Fresco

  People, Answers, Firsts

  "The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War". Book by Jacque Fresco, 2002.

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• Silence is the foundation of truth. Words are most meaningful when they emerge from silence and when they are received by a quiet mind.

  Ken Cohen

  Truth, Silence, Mind

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• Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Weed, Recovery, Dollars

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• Be yourself, build meaningful relationships, follow your dreams.

  Ray William Johnson

  Dream, Being Yourself, Follow Your Dreams

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Men, Challenges

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• I've actually done more [music for] films than television. I love the process of writing for a film. I love that you are creating this suite of music for a film, that's all tied together sonically and thematically and hopefully people associate with the film. They all are meaningful to me in different ways.

  Jeff Cardoni

  Writing, Creating, People

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• The science of yoga saved my life, and I've seen it save many other lives, no matter how dark and hopeless it might feel for someone, there is a pathway forward towards stability and empowerment ... toward creating a new and more meaningful identity and mission in life.

  Brad Willis

  Life, Yoga, Science

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• I do not see how it's possible to have a "friends with benefits" lifestyle, because if the sex is great, it's going to naturally expand into a more meaningful relationship. Otherwise, it's just a booty call.

  Jenna Elfman

  Sex, Booty, Benefits

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• I am thrilled and honored to have a seat at the table for meaningful conversation with so many accomplished women in the sports world.

  Laila Ali

  Sports, World, Tables

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• Even five minute meaningful conversations with other people not only fuel us in the moment but also build up a reserve of social capital so that when hard times strike, we can draw down on that bank account.

  Michelle Gielan

  Hard Times, People, Fuel

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• To me thin people never had any meaningful problems.

  Dorothy Cannell

  People, Weight, Problem

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• The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.

  Mae Whitman

  Genre Is, Age, Stories

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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