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Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Tony Robbins

What we call stress is just extension of being busy without meaning. When you do things that are not meaningful to you, just to get the sense of completion, just to feel like you got something done, your spirit feels empty. So, the most important thing for people to realize is that you have to control the flow of information in your life. — Tony Robbins

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Arnold Palmer

I have had a love affair with Wake Forest since my undergraduate days, but I didn't realize until many years later what I had truly learned at Wake Forest, both in and out of the classroom, about the meaning of a productive and meaningful life, — Arnold Palmer

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Leslie Morgan Steiner

If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility. — Leslie Morgan Steiner

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Tom Hayes

We don't experience our professional and personal lives as separate worlds; they are intertwined and holistic. — Tom Hayes

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Nikki Rowe

less small talk
and more real talk. — Nikki Rowe

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Kilroy J. Oldster

A person must claim the meaning behind his or her existence. How we live is our final testament to what we believed in and our journey through the corridor of time determines our decisive character. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Ovadya Ben Malka

We stand on the edge of the abyss, across whose unknowable face we paint meaning so as not to see into it. It is always there. But we're here too, and we are no less real than the abyss. We are no less meaningful for being transient creatures caught up in something too big for us. There is still value to our lives. I've learned that those things that are most fragile are also the most precious. — Ovadya Ben Malka

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Dean Koontz

Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.
Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them. — Dean Koontz

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Bernie Siegel

Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful. — Bernie Siegel

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By T. Harv Eker

Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning. — T. Harv Eker

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Utpal Vaishnav

A meaningful life is the life full of meaningful relationships. Create yours. — Utpal Vaishnav

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Alan Cohen

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you. — Alan Cohen

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Colin Wilson

Sometimes life is intensely interesting and meaningful, and this meaning seems to be an objective fact, like sunlight. At other times it's as meaningless and futile as the wind. We accept this eclipse of meaning as we accept changes in the weather. If I wake up with a bad cold or a headache, I seem to be deaf to meaning. Now if I woke up physically deaf or half-blind, I'd feel there was something wrong and consult a doctor. But when I'm deaf to meaning, I accept it as something natural. Esmond didn't accept it as natural. And he also noticed that every time we're sexually stimulated, meaning returns. We can hear again. So he pursued sex as a way of recovering meaning. — Colin Wilson

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Chris Matakas

The most meaningful endeavors are the ones that come without an end. — Chris Matakas

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Debasish Mridha

To find the meaning of life, enjoy the journey, the beauty of the nature, the glint of a dew drop, the warmth of the morning sun, the songs of the wind, and smiles of flowers. These are all there to make your journey worthwhile and make your life meaningful. — Debasish Mridha

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Michael Meade

What is most lacking in the modern world of duplications and facsimiles, of endless information and intentional misinformation, is the authenticity that makes life truly meaningful and spiritually rewarding. — Michael Meade

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Steve Gleason

Life is difficult. Not just for me or other ALS patients. Life is difficult for everyone. Finding ways to make life meaningful and purposeful and rewarding, doing the activities that you love and spending time with the people that you love - I think that's the meaning of this human experience. — Steve Gleason

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Noam Chomsky

As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is some meaning to their lives beyond what we agree is the case. I'd never try to talk them out of the delusions, which are necessary for them to live a life that makes some sense to them. These beliefs can provide a framework for deeds that are noble or savage, and anywhere in between, and there's every reason to focus attention on the deeds and the background for them, to the extent that we can grasp it. — Noam Chomsky

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Robin Sacredfire

Believe me, people do change and they change often and many times through their lifetime. However, due to naiveness, passivity and selfishness, they commonly change towards a more negative self, becoming less than they were. Positive changes are destined for those that seek them. Our world is, by default, designed to bring us down. In order to go up, one must consciously seek to dream and manifest dreams, by learning, reading, asking meaningful questions and actively making connections with others. One must, at least, love. — Robin Sacredfire

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Eric Greitens

Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work, though their relationships, and by how they choose to meet unavoidable suffering. Every life brings hardship and trial, and every life also offers deep possibilities for meaningful work and love ... I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin. — Eric Greitens

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Dan Barker

The preachers have got it completely backward. If life is eternal, then life is cheap. Value does not come from surplus; it comes from rarity. Prices rise as supply drops. The reality that our lives are brief is what makes them precious. The fact that they will end makes them more meaningful. "Ultimate purpose" is no purpose at all: it is the surrender of purpose. It is the pretense that faith equals meaning. — Dan Barker

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Dean Bokhari

I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there's no such thing. And that's a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning you give it. You are indeed the author of your destiny. So why not write a book worth reading? — Dean Bokhari

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Kilroy J. Oldster

Life never ceases having a meaning for a humble person. The freedom of choice, the sovereignty that we hold over our own souls, enables a person to discover the meaning of his or her own life every day, even in suffering or death. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Thich Nhat Hanh

This brings her a lot of joy and gives her life meaning. This can be true for all of us anytime, anywhere. Just saying a few words that make another person suffer less can give our lives meaning.
And it is something we can do anywhere.
When your life is meaningful, happiness becomes a reality and you become a bodhisattva right here and now. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Sunday Adelaja

Make your life a meaningful one — Sunday Adelaja

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Mitch Albom

Remember what I said about finding a meaningful life? I wrote it down, but now I can recite it: Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. "You notice" he added, grinning, "there's nothing in there about a salary. — Mitch Albom

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Ziad K. Abdelnour

Life is not something that "has" meaning. It's something we give meaning to. You don't "end up" with a meaningful life, you create it. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Stephen Covey

Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family. — Stephen Covey

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Massimo Marino

It made our presence in the world meaningful; we still served a purpose. — Massimo Marino

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.
For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Israelmore Ayivor

The will to dream, the courage to act and the hope to win are the stuffs that make life meaningful! Create the life you wish to live and live it fully! — Israelmore Ayivor

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Kilroy J. Oldster

Without thoughtful effort and purposeful change, human life does not improve. The key to living a meaningful life is to accept reality. There is no inherent meaning to life just as there is no hidden meaning behind death. Life is limited and death is simply an ending. The only meaning to life is what each person passionately commits their life to accomplishing. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Robert M. Price

The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition of an infinite amount more of the same isn't about to somehow make it any more meaningful! Add a whole string of zeroes to a zero and watch what happens. — Robert M. Price

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Michael Meade

Myths remind us of the symbolic presence within all the lost-and-found adventures that alone can give life meaning. Losing touch with the world of myth means losing the sense that life is deeply meaningful, full of meanings trying to be revealed at each twist and turn in the ongoing drama. — Michael Meade

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Fredric Jameson

The novel is... the anti-form proper to modernity itself (which is to say, of capitalism and its cultural and epistemological categories, its daily life). This means... that the novel is also a vehicle of creative destruction. Its function, in some properly capitalist 'cultural revolution', is the perpetual undoing of traditional narrative paradigms and their replacement, not by new paradigms, but by something radically different. To use Deleuzian language for a moment, modernity, capitalist modernity, is the moment of passage from codes to axioms, from meaningful sequences, or indeed, if you prefer, from meaning itself, to operational categories, to functions and rules; or, in yet another language, this time more historical and philosophical, it is the transition from metaphysics to epistemologies and pragmatisms, we might even say from content to form. — Fredric Jameson

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Oprah Winfrey

How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life. — Oprah Winfrey

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Donna Farhi

Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions. — Donna Farhi

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Shailene Woodley

I think every script has meaningful messages no matter what it is, because inherently life is full of meaning and every single day we lean a lesson. — Shailene Woodley

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By John Armstrong

But mostly what we think of as the 'meaning' of life concerns the style of the private autobiography we each write and which records how we 'see' ourselves. Whether this autobiography reads as a narrative of progress in which difficulties are transcended, or is chaotic, is the test of whether one's life seems to be meaningful or not. Meaning is something we find, or fail to find, as we follow through this project. We can see how love figures here: love is a major theme, but how we see our experience of love depends upon our general thinking. If, for example, we work with extremely high expectations of love we impose a tragic style upon our self-perceptions: for our experience of love will always be seen under an aspect of failure - failure focused upon ourselves or others. Hence the more subtle our thinking about love, the more intelligently we discriminate ideals from reality, the more interesting our autobiography becomes. — John Armstrong

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Kilroy J. Oldster

A person seeks to quantify their existence. Do we measure a person's life by its longevity or by assessing the warmth of its blaze? Do we measure a person by their brainpower or by the heartiness of his or her spine? Do earthy deeds count for more than intellectual opinions? What is more important, the work that a person produces or the quality of life that effuses from their being? Does it matter how we live and how we die, if we love or hate, are kind or mean, generous or stingy? Does it matter that we struggle to express personal doubts and toil in an effort to obtain redemption for our personal lapses? — Kilroy J. Oldster

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Viktor E. Frankl

One should not search for an abstract meaning of life ... Life can be made meaningful in a threefold way: first, through what we give to life ... second, by what we take from the world ... third, through the stand we take toward a fate we no longer can change ... — Viktor E. Frankl

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By R. Dawkins

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point ... The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. — R. Dawkins

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Lisa Cypers Kamen

Happiness will never invite you to the party. Happiness simply comes down to a choice to show up each and every day on the world with passion, purpose, place and meaning. — Lisa Cypers Kamen

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Brajesh Kumar

What is the meaning to this life?" is a wrong question? A blank paper doesn't contain any meaning till we don't write anything meaningful on it. Similarly this universe doesn't contain any meaning without this beautiful life. So life gives meaning to this universe and we should respect it. — Brajesh Kumar

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Avijeet Das

Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat. — Avijeet Das

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney

Balance is only meaningful when we choose Love as the center of gravity! — Phil 'Philosofree' Cheney

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Tom Hayes

Unless individuals have the power to defy commoditization and define their own lives, their potential is vulnerable to the crushing forces of objectification. — Tom Hayes

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Jonathan Sacks

But beyond a basic minimum, the relationship between income and happiness is slight. Research bears out Maslow's analysis that the higher needs are love and belonging, esteem and self-actualisation. The most significant determinants of happiness are strong and rewarding personal relationships, a sense of belonging to a community, being valued by others and living a meaningful life. These are precisely the things in which religion specialises: sanctifying marriage, etching family life with the charisma of holiness, creating and sustaining strong communities in which people are valued for what they are, not for what they earn or own, and providing a framework within which our lives take on meaning, purpose, even blessedness. — Jonathan Sacks

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Shannon L. Alder

If you don't know what you value in life, then you won't be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future. — Shannon L. Alder

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Kilroy J. Oldster

We create a meaningful life by what we accept as true and by what we create in the pursuit of truth, love, beauty, and adoration of nature. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Angela Khristin Brown

THE BEAUTY
Poetry is beautiful, in my eyes.
Its words are aged with wisdom.
A poets tears burn words, to vanish sighs,
As eternal as silence is sincere.
A sphinx pressed against the sky,
Is as pure as an angel's virginity.
The words of a poet articulates sound
Nor tears, nor laughter prohibits meaning.
Poets who speak wisely with conceit,
Interpret words beyond reason.
To consume the hour with extensive study;
Is admired for its esthetic beauty.
Poetry, the mirror image of perfection:
Meaningful text, burn words internally!
- Angela Khristin Brown — Angela Khristin Brown

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Jeanette Winterson

Pursuing happiness, and I did, and I still do, is not at all the same as being happy
which I think is fleeting, dependent on circumstances ... If the sun is shining, stand in it
yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass
they have to because time passes. The pursuit of happiness is more elusive; it is life-long, and it is not goal-centered. What you are pursuing is meaning
a meaningful life. There's the hap
the fate, the draw that is yours, and it isn't fixed, but changing the course of the stream, or dealing new cards, whatever metaphor you want to use
that's going to take a lot of energy. There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms. The pursuit isn't all or nothing
it's all AND nothing. — Jeanette Winterson

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Nikki Rowe

Each story provides a beginning, a middle and an end, the trick is, never seperate them through the chapters or you'll miss the meaning of the entire book. — Nikki Rowe

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By T. Scott McLeod

What was meaningful? What was meaningless? What did it mean, to amount to something? What type of life, was worth living? Was it better, to make a ton of money, and have a fucking goddamn Mercedes, or whatever the fuck kind of car it was, to be a lawyer with a 'serious' job, and to have 'amounted to something,' or was it better to just be a waiter, and work the evening shift, and have your days free to goof off with your roommates, your friends, to go to meditation, to take some time to reflect, and enjoy life, and to not always be in such a big goddamn rush to get somewhere? — T. Scott McLeod

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Tripta Arora

Life is just too beautiful if meaning is attached to it, and useless when meaningless!! — Tripta Arora

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Richard Dawkins

The truly adult view [ ... ] is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed. — Richard Dawkins

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Dalai Lama XIV

In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace. — Dalai Lama XIV

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Eckhart Tolle

You don't have to wait for something "meaningful" to come into your life so that you can finally enjoy what you do. There is more meaning in joy than you will ever need. The "waiting to start living" syndrome is one of the most common delusions of the unconscious state. — Eckhart Tolle

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Woody Allen

[ ... ] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day. — Woody Allen

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Kilroy J. Oldster

What gives a person's brief time on this planet meaning is engaging in small acts of kindness. Bestowing an act of kindness upon other people is the greatest gift that a person will ever give to other people and such acts shall renew the gifting person. When we unreservedly accept and love our brethren, we become the ineluctable wind that vivifies the lives of other people. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Sigve K. Tonstad

Barth observes that the seventh day does not come at the end of a week of toil and labor for human beings as though its primary purpose is to offer a measure of respite after days of toil. Rather, since "God's seventh day was man's first,"54 the seventh day sets life's priority for human beings in the most tangible way. Better yet - and much closer to the point - the seventh day brings to view God's priorities. Seeing that human time "begins with a day of rest and not a day of work,"55 the spiritual pursuit, living life in a relationship with the Creator that is mutually meaningful, stands out as the primary meaning in life. — Sigve K. Tonstad

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Laura Schlessinger

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage. — Laura Schlessinger

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Carl Safina

In a universe devoid of life, any life at all would be immensely meaningful. We ARE that meaning. "And what we see, "says the poet Mary Oliver, "is the world that cannot cherish us, but which we cherish." As though life itself is the great, universal, unrequited love of all time. But there is even more to this. Deep mystery. We are the universe aware of itself. We let the miracle get lost in distractions. On a planet so rich with living companions, much of humanity sentences itself to solitary confinement. Late at night, I used to lie in my boat listening to radio calls from ships to families ashore. There was only one conversation, and it boils down to, "I love you and I miss you: come home safe." Connections make us individuals. Ironic, isn't it? The more connected, the more unique our life becomes ... — Carl Safina

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Gary Hopkins

Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence. — Gary Hopkins

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By E.A. Bucchianeri

Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ... — E.A. Bucchianeri

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Kilroy J. Oldster

No person can claim to be anything more or anything less than his or her individual assimilation of a lifelong symposium of inimitable physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual occurrences. Simply put, we each place our own individualized stamp upon the meaning of life. How we live, how we struggle, and how we die reflects what life means to each of us. We are all students of life, we are a product of what we pay attention to, what we observe, and experience, and what subjects arrest our minds. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Boris Pasternak

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful. — Boris Pasternak

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Sharon Nir

Meaning cannot be found, it should be created every hour of every day — Sharon Nir

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Charlie Sheen

Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life. — Charlie Sheen

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Roy F. Baumeister

Religion deals with the highest levels of meaning. As a result, it can interpret each life or each event in a context that runs from the beginning of time to future eternity. Religion is thus uniquely capable of offering high-level meaning to human life. Religion
may not always be the best way to make life meaningful, but it is probably the most reliable way. — Roy F. Baumeister

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Sarah Kane

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful — Sarah Kane

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Me

There's no meaning to life, might as well make it meaningful. — Me

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Tom Hayes

Commoditization is the enemy of meaning. In ages dominated by the forces of commoditization, individuals pay the price with devalued lives. by contrast, unique skills requiring mastery and expertise, like the skills of a brain surgeon, are safe from the threat of commoditization. — Tom Hayes

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Kilroy J. Oldster

We can only hope to live a meaningful life by serving as earnest witnesses to life's tragic beauty. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Pfister

Meaning beginns in the words, in the action, continues in your head and ends nowhere. There is no end to meaning. Meaning which is resolved, parcelled, labelled and ready for export is dead, impartient - and meaningless. — Pfister

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Enza Vita

Our lives are a divine expression no matter how messy and weird they may be. How much more meaningful can it get? The source is experiencing itself in form in a conscious, awake way. — Enza Vita

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Rebecca Solnit

The problem may be a literary one: we are given a single story line about what makes a good life, even though not a few who follow that story line have bad lives. We speak as though there is one good plot with one happy outcome, while the myriad forms a life can take flower - and wither - all around us.
Even those who live out the best version of the familiar story line might not find happiness as their reward. This is not necessarily a bad thing. I know a woman who was lovingly married for seventy years. She has had a long, meaningful life that she has lived according to her principles. But I wouldn't call her happy; her compassion for the vulnerable and concern for the future have given her a despondent worldview. What she has had instead of happiness requires better language to describe. There are entirely different criteria for a good life that might matter more to a person - honor, meaning, depth, engagement, hope. — Rebecca Solnit

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Anonymous

In our hunger for guidance, we were ordinary. The American Freshman Survey, which has followed students since 1966, proves the point. One prompt in the questionnaire asks entering freshmen about "objectives considered to be essential or very important." In 1967, 86 percent of respondents checked "developing a meaningful philosophy of life," more than double the number who said "being very well off financially." Naturally, students looked to professors for moral and worldly understanding. Since then, though, finding meaning and making money have traded places. The first has plummeted to 45 percent; the second has soared to 82 percent. — Anonymous

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Avijeet Das

Your life is not meant to be lived in a way to satisfy someone's expectation out of you! Live your life in your own way. — Avijeet Das

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Bill Crawford

A meaningful life is composed of a series of meaningful moments. If this is what we want, then the ability to infuse each moment with meaning would seem to be a skill worth practicing. — Bill Crawford

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Viktor E. Frankl

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

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Padgett Powell

Isn't it true that there is a rare kind of person who perceives, as does a good dog, that life is doing something meaningful, and who discovers what it is and goes about doing it with a spirit of moderate hustle, and there is a not rare kind of person who perceives none of this and who goes about doing what is necessary in a spirit of aggrievedness? — Padgett Powell

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Munia Khan

Only pain can define the meaning of tears. — Munia Khan

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Jesse Andrews

I'm not really putting this very well. My point is this: This book contains precisely zero Important Life Lessons, or Little-Known Facts About Love, or sappy tear-jerking Moments When We Knew We Had Left Our Childhood Behind for Good, or whatever. And, unlike most books in which a girl gets cancer, there are definitely no sugary paradoxical single-sentence-paragraphs that you're supposed to think are deep because they're in italics. Do you know what I'm talking about? I'm talking about sentences like this:
The cancer had taken her eyeballs, yet she saw the world with more clarity than ever before.
Barf. Forget it. For me personally, things are in no way more meaningful because I got to know Rachel before she died. If anything, things are less meaningful. All right? — Jesse Andrews

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By David Brooks

This shift in culture has changed us. In the first place, it has made us a bit more materialistic. College students now say they put more value on money and career success. Every year, researchers from UCLA survey a nationwide sample of college freshmen to gauge their values and what they want out of life. In 1966, 80 percent of freshmen said that they were strongly motivated to develop a meaningful philosophy of life. Today, less than half of them say that. In 1966, 42 percent said that becoming rich was an important life goal. By 1990, 74 percent agreed with that statement. Financial security, once seen as a middling value, is now tied as students' top goal. In 1966, in other words, students felt it was important to at least present themselves as philosophical and meaning-driven people. By 1990, they no longer felt the need to present themselves that way. They felt it perfectly acceptable to say they were primarily interested in money.20 We live in a more individualistic society. If — David Brooks

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Thomas Moore

All illness is meaningful, although its meaning may never be translatable into entirely rational terms. The point is not to understand the cause of the disease and then solve the problem, but to get close enough to the disease to restore the particular religious connection with life at which it hints. — Thomas Moore

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Timothy J. Keller

Work is not all there is to life. You will not have a meaningful life without work, but you cannot say that your work is the meaning of your life. If you make any work the purpose of your life - even if that work is church ministry - you create an idol that rivals God. Your relationship with God is the most important foundation for your life, and indeed it keeps all the other factors - work, friendships and family, leisure and pleasure - from becoming so important to you that they become addicting and distorted. — Timothy J. Keller

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Eckhart Tolle

Making it" in whatever field is only meaningful as long as there are thousands or millions of others who don't make it, so you need other human beings to "fail" so that your life can have meaning. — Eckhart Tolle

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Hanya Yanagihara

I know my life's meaningful because" - and here he stopped, and looked shy, and was silent for a moment before he continued - " because I'm a good friend. I love my friends, and I care about them, and I think I make them happy. — Hanya Yanagihara

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Suzy Kassem

How will people remember you when you are gone? And for how long until they forget? Were you selfish or selfless? A gossip or a patient listener? Did you add value to the world, or did you simply take from it? Did you add value to the lives of others, or did you take the value out of someone's life? Were you a plus or negative? Meaningful or meaningless? Do you live to take or live to give? — Suzy Kassem

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Oliver North

An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy. — Oliver North

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Sandra Bullock

I don't need any more stories. I have enough stories. I need a life. — Sandra Bullock

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Bill Phillips

The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life. — Bill Phillips

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Atul Gawande

In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments - which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves. — Atul Gawande

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Alex Pattakos

When we work creatively and productively with others, our experience of meaning can be profound. When we work directly for the good of others, meaning deepens in ways that reward us beyond measure. Whenever we go beyond satisfying our own personal needs, we enter the realm of what Frankl called "ultimate meaning." some call it connection to a higher self, to God, to our own spirit, to universal consciousness, to love, to the collective good. No matter what it's called, it is deep meaning and it transforms our lives. — Alex Pattakos

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Michael Levy

A person's Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy. — Michael Levy

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Adam Grant

Originality brings more bumps in the road, yet it leaves us with more happiness and a greater sense of meaning. — Adam Grant

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you want a meaningful life for yourself don't ask "What can the world offer to me?" but "What can I offer to the world? — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By A.C. Grayling

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them. — A.C. Grayling

Meaning Life Meaningful Quotes By Woody Allen

Everybody knows how awful the world is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things, others with sports, money, love, art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way. — Woody Allen