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• Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears.

  Rollo May

  Memories, Past, Hopes And Fears

  "Man's Search for Himself" by Rollo May, (p. 220), 1953.

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• Everybody can justify their actions. We all think that we're doing things for reasons that are meaningful to us. Maybe not to other people, but to us.

  Barbara Crampton

  Thinking, People, Action

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think everyone is always asking themselves, How is my work meaningful, how is my life meaningful? As I get older, I feel like who I am as a person and a citizen is more important than who I am in my work. But I do think it reframed slightly for me, how much I have to care about a project in order to want to do it. Sometimes, obviously, you have a take a job for money. But I think I'm quicker now when I get a script that's, say, borderline misogynist, I'm not going to go in for it. I'm thinking more about what I'm putting into the world.

  Zoe Kazan

  Thinking, Important, Meaning Of Life

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• One thing that I would like to do that I've seen them not do that well is take women all through the process of the postpartum period in a more meaningful way. That would be my agenda.

  June Diane Raphael

  Would Be, Agendas, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People want to know how do they pay for education and they want to figure out how to find and maintain meaningful employment. Education and the economy are polled by Latinos as the top two most important issues. But those are also the issues that everyone cares about, regardless of race; so we don't need to be divided over it.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Race, Two, Issues

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten. Without human values, life is meaningless. When there is purity in thought, word and deed, human values are practised. The unity of the three H's is essential. 'Heart, Head and Hand. ' But today this unity is absent among people, with the result that men are becoming inhuman.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Heart, Greatness, Men

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• But it's true, kingdoms and crowns, a God who came down to find you. It's true, angels on high sing through the night, Alleluia.

  Sara Groves

  Christmas, Angel, Night

  Song: It's True, Album: O Holy Night, 2008

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• I feel so fortunate, Because some people think, well you're just relegated to the sideline. But I feel valued there. They trust me. We work very, very hard at making it worthwhile. We are not going to just be down there spewing a bunch of blah. With our halftime talking to the coaches we are really trying to get something meaningful there and something that helps spin the game forward.

  Michele Tafoya

  Thinking, Talking, Games

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• At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate in their own terms, but they don't address the actual experience of how one or other aspect of religion becomes existentially meaningful to us in our actual lives. The fact that we ourselves are the subject of investigation makes all the difference.

  George Pattison

  Thinking, Asking Questions, Differences

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Al Gore has made no serious attempt to level the playing field for U.S. agriculture exports, which have fallen 16 percent in the last three years. And Al Gore has opposed every serious proposal to provide American farmers with meaningful tax relief.

  Dan Quayle

  Agriculture, Years, Levels

  "Republican rivals focus on farm crisis" by David Yepsen, www.cnn.com. August 12, 1999.

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• Another misconception is that if we truly loved someone, we will never finish with our grief, as if continued sorrow is a testimonial to our love. But true love does not need grief to support its truth. Love can last in a healthy and meaningful way, once our grief is dispelled. We can honor our dead more by the quality of our continued living than by our constantly remembering the past.

  Judy Tatelbaum

  Grief, Grieving, Past

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• Before he did all those lovely line drawings, Matisse would make really detailed charcoal drawings and tear them up. He wouldn't leave them about... I understand what he was doing: discovering what's there... to make the line meaningful, to find a linear solution.

  David Hockney

  Drawing, Lovely, Tears

  "David Hockney". Book by Marco Livingstone, 1976.

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• Conversation was never begun at once, nor in a hurried manner. No one was quick with a question, no matter how important, and no one was pressed for an answer. A pause giving time for thought was the truly courteous way of beginning and conducting a conversation. Silence was meaningful with the Lakota, and his granting a space of silence to the speech-maker and his own moment of silence before talking was done in the practice of true politeness and regard for the rule that, "thought comes before speech."

  Luther Standing Bear

  Native American, Space, Talking

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• There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

  Anthony H. Cordesman

  War, Civilization, Differences

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• As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make.

  Stephen Covey

  Commitment, What Matters, Years

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• It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Skills, Yield

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life.

  Martin Seligman

  Good Life, Life Is, Pleasant

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Authentic Happiness”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• Life is too meaningful to die.

  Kedar Joshi

  Life, Purpose, Dies

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• Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful.

  Ansel Adams

  Feelings, Growing, Coincidence

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• What do you want?' is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.

  Tim Ferriss

  Answers, Want, Produce

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• I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

  Yann Martel

  Believe, Order, Giving

  Marilyn Herbert, Yann Martel (2005). “Life of Pi”, p.62, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• What would you love to achieve and accomplish? What would you feel great about doing in your life? What meaningful goals would you wish to reach? Imagine achieving and accomplishing everything that you would wish [dream] for. Picture yourself reaching your highest aspirations and your most meaningful goals. Visualize yourself speaking and acting the way you would wish with the highest and best character traits.

  Zelig Pliskin

  Dream, Character, Goal

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• L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

  James Luther Adams

  Attitude, Optimism, Achievement

  James Luther Adams (1976). “On being human religiously: selected essays in religion and society”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• Only that which is directed toward definite goals, which in turn are founded on sound educational philosophy, can be ultimately meaningful. The principles must always precede the activities.

  Henrietta Mears

  Philosophy, Educational, Goal

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• Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

  Meher Baba

  Life, Reality, Endure

  Meher Baba, A. K. Hajra (1969). “Life is a Jest”

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