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• The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Thinking, Want

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• Each one of us is responsible for the whole of humankind. We need to think of each other really as brothers and sisters and to be concerned for each other’s welfare. Rather than working solely to acquire wealth, we need to do something meaningful, something directed seriously towards the welfare of humanity as a whole.

  Dalai Lama

  Sister, Brother, Thinking

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• I would say that our patients never really despair because of any suffering in itself! Instead, their despair stems in each instance from a doubt as to whether suffering is meaningful. Man is ready and willing to shoulder any suffering as soon and as long as he can see a meaning in it.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Long, Doubt

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• I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.

  Ellen Barkin

  Kids, Emotional, Thinking

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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

  Eye, Heart, Blessing

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• For many years now I have listened to the stories of people with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses as their counselor. From them I have learned how to enjoy the minute particulars of life once again, the grace of a hot cup of coffee, the presence of a friend, the blessing of having a new cake of soap or an hour without pain. Such humble experience is the stuff that many of the very best stories are made of. If we think we have no stories it is because we have not paid enough attention to our lives. Most of us live lives that are far richer and more meaningful than we appreciate.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Pain, Cancer, Live Life

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• The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists.

  Aaron Scharf

  Photography, Art, School

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• What are we going to get out of life? This can understandably be a question of fundamental importance to us. We begin with certain basic needs and desires. It is important to have a comfortable home, plenty of food, a meaningful and well-paying job, comfort, companionship, and joy. However, many of us have not fully realized a simple, basic principle: for our receiving to take place, we must first give. Giving and receiving are two aspects of the same law of life.

  John Templeton

  Life, Jobs, Home

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• I don't know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

  Jeff Bezos

  Cashiers, Knows

  "Brought to book" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2001.

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• You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Together, Needs, Able

  "Anthony Horowitz: Do we still need publishers?" by Anthony Horowitz, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2012.

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• Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, Art, Expression

  "China's art world does not exist" by Ai Weiwei, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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• The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

  Annie Dillard

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• So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

  Brit Marling

  Writing, Stronger, Roles

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• As time goes by the memories of sitting on the edge of a bed and reading aloud with your kid are going to be very meaningful in your own mental scrapbook.

  Gary Ross

  Memories, Reading, Kids

  "On Penning Verse, Creating Readers, and Loving Libraries: An Interview With The Hunger Games Director Gary Ros". Interview with Earl Martin Phalen, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2012.

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• The relationships I've had with my girl friends are so powerful and meaningful. Without them I truly don't know what I'd do.

  Ellen Page

  Girl, Powerful, Knows

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• The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

  Barry Commoner

  Powerful, Environmental Quality, Effort

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

  Kamala Harris

  Thinking, Justice, Criminals

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• The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.

  Ed Bradley

  People, Important, People In Your Life

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• The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

  Louise Brown

  People, Stories, Made

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• I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.

  Chris Hughes

  Moving, Skills, People

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• I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Mom, Song, Depressing

  "Aubrey Plaza on Rejection, Tina Fey, and Safety Not Guaranteed". Interview with Ashley Terrill, www.elle.com. June 8, 2012.

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• So without getting into the specifics, I can tell you that to the extent that investigation is a relatively important investigation and meaningful, the president would have been periodically briefed.

  Robert Mueller

  Important, President, Investigation

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• Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

  Alastair Campbell

  Team, Games, Campaigns

  "Philip Gould, the best listener in politics" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2011.

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• Fiction is socially meaningful.

  David Guterson

  Fiction

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• But you are absolutely right that when the international community decides to help in a meaningful manner a country like Afghanistan, then coordination between the various actors that are involved in these processes is very, very difficult indeed.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Country, Community, Actors

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