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• A thank-you can be just as meaningful as a soulful ten-page message.

  Drew Barrymore

  Imperfection, Pages, Messages

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• You don't need to go all deep and meaningful and start talking about Daddies. It's yes or no answer.

  Carl Froch

  Motivation, Talking, Daddy

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• I already did everything one time and that makes that one time stick out.

  Randy Quaid

  Sticks, One Time

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• The love within us is meant to extend outward. The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge to share it. We all long for meaningful work, some creative endeavor that will be our ministry, by which the energies within us might flow out to help heal the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Light, Long, Creative

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• In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Views

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.26, Penguin

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• I don't know Who, or what, put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone, or Something,and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Self, Goal, Answers

  Markings (1964)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.

  R. C. Sproul

  Testimony

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• We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures. It is only through having cultures that mankind on this earth has an ordered and meaningful life. Music and drama are two of the many important manifestation of a culture. They are important because they represent the expressions emanating from the power of human artistic creativity

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Drama, Creativity, Expression

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• Be involved; be informed. Make meaningful contributions to society through service and involvement.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Contribution To Society, Involvement, Involved

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• Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality.

  Ronald Reagan

  Responsibility, Reality, Welfare

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

  Mark Twight

  Success, Hard Work, Persistence

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• Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.

  Bill Nye

  Powerful, Ideas, Discovery

  "The best popular science books of 2014: Biological sciences" by GrrlScientist, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2014.

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• Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you.

  Randy Komisar

  Hard Work, Assets, Most Meaningful

  Randy Komisar, Kent L. Lineback (2001). “The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living”, p.156, Harvard Business Press

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• The only way to atone for the past is to do something meaningful in the present.

  Deepak Chopra

  Past, Way

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• Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

  Scott Ritter

  Iraq, Politics, Weapons

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• The discerning realize that it is not realistic to expect perfection in others when none of us is perfect...Meaningful progress can be made only when all of us can cast the motes out of our own eyes, leave judgment to our Father in Heaven, and lose ourselves in righteous living.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Father, Eye, Righteous Living

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• In 1946, Oxford University in England was offered large funds to create a new Institute of Human Nutrition. The University refused the funds on the ground that the knowledge of human nutrition was essentially complete, and that the proposed institution would soon run out of meaningful research projects.

  Rene Dubos

  Running, Dark, Oxford

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• If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

  Tom Brady

  Want, Ifs

  "A Q&A with Tom Brady". Interview with Jimmy Tarina, www.si.com. June 21, 2012.

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• You got to know what's worth keeping and what's worth letting go.

  Michael Shannon

  Letting Go, Knows

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• This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.

  Tilda Swinton

  Kindness, Self, Appreciate

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• Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

  Richard Jenkins

  Waste, Life Is, Minutes

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