Meaningful Quotes - Page 27

• Choosing a way to die, what's the difference? Choosing a way to live, now that's the hard part.

  Robert Ryan

  Differences, Way To Live, Dies

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• Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing.

  George Sanders

  Lost

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• You mustn't miss the moment. There's only one first sailing into Rio harbor.

  Bette Davis

  Missing, Sailing, Firsts

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• Take part. Contribute. Be interested in everything and everybody.

  Claude Rains

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• What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

  Melvyn Douglas

  Thinking, Moments

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• For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!

  Lionel Barrymore

  Firsts, Life Is, Wonderful

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• The thrill of tramping alone and unafraid through a wilderness of lakes, creeks, alpine meadows, and glaciers is not known to many. A civilization can be built around the machine but it is doubtful that a meaningful life can be produced by it.... When man worships at the feet of avalas creations. When he feels the wind blowing through him on a high peak or sleeps under a closely matted white bark pine in an exposed basin, he is apt to find his relationship to the universe.

  William O. Douglas

  Sleep, Journey, Men

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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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• If you reflect on your life, you may recall times when you couldn't see the value of some person and were tempted to brush him or her off. It takes hindsight to recognize that the very situation you may have seen as an irritating bother turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Wouldn't life be a much more enjoyable and meaningful experience if we decided to look at the difficult people and irritating situations as blessings in disguise? If we look deeply enough, we might see how these experiences as situations that motivate us to grow and change for the better.

  John Templeton

  Adversity, Blessing, People

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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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• Every musical phrase has a purpose. It's like talking. If you talk with a particular purpose, people listen to you, but if you just recite, it's not as meaningful.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Inspirational, Talking, People

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• Skillful pitching... is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of raising capital. More important are the realities of your organization: Are you building something meaningful, long lasting, and valuable to society?

  Guy Kawasaki

  Reality, Organization, Long

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• You can only make so much money in life and only enjoy so many creature comforts. The important thing is to do something meaningful-to leave something behind.

  Roone Arledge

  Leadership, Sports, Important

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• In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education.

  Barack Obama

  Art, Children, Math

  "President’s Committee Makes Strongest Case Ever for Arts Education" by John M. Eger, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2011.

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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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• Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one's destiny.

  Phil Cousineau

  Destiny, Soul, Glimpse

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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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• You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earthplane is infinitely more meaningful and more involved if you are encased in its trappings and subject to its rules.

  P. M. H. Atwater

  Body, Subjects, Involved

  P. M. H. Atwater (2004). “We Live Forever: The Real Truth about Death”, p.89, ARE Press

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• Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those who have more, we feel bad. When we compare ourselves to those who have less, we feel grateful. Even though the truth is we have exactly the same life either way, our feelings about our life can vary tremendously based on who we compare ourselves with. Compare yourself with those examples that are meaningful but that make you feel comfortable with who you are and what you have.

  David Niven

  Grateful, Roots, Feelings

  David Niven, PhD (2009). “The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It”, p.9, Harper Collins

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