Meaningful Quotes - Page 21

• When our young people can find meaningful work, we all benefit. This youth jobs strategy would help connect youth with careers they can build on and equip them with the skills they need to thrive in today's global economy.

  Kathleen Wynne

  Jobs, Careers, Skills

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• To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Work, Meaningful Work

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• To be a leader means, especially, having the opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of those who permit leaders to lead.

  Max De Pree

  Opportunity, Differences, Leader

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

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• Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food.

  Lewis Mumford

  Spiritual, Revenge, Men

  "The Conduct Of Life" by Lewis Mumford, Ch. 1, 1951.

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• Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of willful decisions or humanly meaningful purposes.

  Hannah Arendt

  Work, Decision, Progress

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• If you are determined not to risk pain, then you must do without many things: having children, getting married, the ecstasy of sex, the hope of ambition, friendship-all that makes life alive, meaningful and significant.

  M. Scott Peck

  Sex, Children, Pain

  M. Scott Peck (2003). “The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth”, Touchstone

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• When I first painted a number of canvases grey all over (about eight years ago), I did so because I did not know what to paint, or what there might be to paint: so wretched a start could lead to nothing meaningful. As time went on, however, I observed differences of quality among the grey surfaces - and also that these betrayed nothing of the destructive motivation that lay behind them. The pictures began to teach me. By generalizing a personal dilemma, they resolved it.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Motivation, Years

  FaceBook post by Gerhard Richter from Jun 30, 2015

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• I believe that earning your living doing something you enjoy is one of the very best ways to nourish yourself. But even if you are employed at something that is not your ideal work, it is important to find ways to take as much pleasure in it as possible. Living in the present moment can make ordinary activities more interesting and joyful; you may be surprised, if you only look, at what you will find. If you try to stay connected with why you are doing what you are doing, for example, then even the parts of your life that aren't especially interesting can become more meaningful.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Work, Believe, Interesting

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• Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events; a tendency to find meaningful purpose in life’s turmoil; and a conviction that they can learn from both positive and negative experiences.

  Amanda Ripley

  Believe, Skills, Negative Experiences

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• Happy persons seldom think of happiness. They are too busy losing their lives in the meaningful sacrifices of service.

  David W Augsburger

  Happiness, Sacrifice, Thinking

  David W. Augsburger (1982). “From Here to Maturity”, Tyndale House Pub

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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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• That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.

  Kelly Corrigan

  Sometimes, Metaphor, Violent

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• As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power to make people forget and forfeit their own real interests. "The fact that the vast majority of the population accepts, and is made to accept, this society does not render it less irrational and less reprehensible," he wrote. "The distinction between true and false consciousness, real and immediate interest still is meaningful."

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Freedom, Real, Writing

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.67, Penguin

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• Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions.

  Terry Winograd

  Understanding, Progress, Asking

  Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores (1986). “Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design”, p.13, Intellect Books

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• In general, an ideal partner is (a) open and nondefensive, (b) honest and nonduplicitous, (c) affectionate and easy-going, (d) mentally and physically healthy, (e) independent and successful in his or her chosen career or lifestyle, and (f) aware of a meaningful existence that includes humanitarian values.

  Robert W. Firestone

  Independent, Successful, Careers

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• Controversy is what mediocre people start because they can't communicate anything meaningful.

  G. Willow Wilson

  People, Mediocre, Communicate

  G. Willow Wilson (2010). “The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam”, p.261, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• How can you put on a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper?

  Rod Serling

  Drama, Dancing, Twelve

  "American Masters (Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval)". TV Series, November 29, 1995.

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• There is a way of living that has a certain grace and beauty. It is not a constant race for what is next, rather, an appreciation of that which has come before. There is a depth and quality of experience that is lived and felt, a recognition of what is truly meaningful. These are the feelings I would like my work to inspire. This is the quality of life that I believe in.

  Ralph Lauren

  Appreciation, Believe, Race

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• When you strip away the rhetoric, preservation is simply having the good sense to hold on to things that are well designed, that link us with our past in a meaningful way, and that have plenty of good use left in them.

  Richard Moe

  Past, Use, Links

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• Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.

  Mariane Pearl

  Greater Good, Persons, Very Mean

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• For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

  Mordecai Richler

  Book, Addiction, Withdrawal

  Mordecai Richler (1974). “Notes on an endangered species and others”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Struggle, Able, Existence

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.102, Souvenir Press

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• We have to consciously build the elements of a world based on a culture of peace and disarmament. This is a task for everyone. It is multidimensional in scope, requiring meaningful participation of people at all levels.

  Widad Akrawi

  People, Elements, World

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• Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies from efforts to pray about ‘good things’ that honestly do not matter to us. The way to get to meaningful prayer for those good things is to start by praying for what we are truly interested in. The circle of our interests will inevitably grow in the largeness of God’s love.

  Dallas Willard

  Prayer, Circles, People

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