Top Meaningful Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Meaningful quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Bernie Siegel
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
- Bernie Siegel
Collection: Meaningful
Image of David Brenner
We work very, very hard to find that fine line where location is meaningful enough to be interesting to an advertiser but not so intrusive that it interrupts the creative flow of the show.
- David Brenner
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Image of Seneca the Younger
No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
- Seneca the Younger
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Image of Eric Greitens
A good peace, a solid peace, a peace in which communities can flourish, can only be built when we ask ourselves and each other to be more than just good, and better than just strong. And a good life, a meaningful life, a life in which we can enjoy the world and live with purpose, can only be built if we do more than live for ourselves.
- Eric Greitens
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Image of 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
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Image of Harold Ramis
I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.
- Harold Ramis
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Image of Scott Ritter
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
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Image of Daniel J. Siegel
We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain—her whole brain—that develop skills that lead to better relationships, better mental health, and more meaningful lives. You could call it brain sculpting, or brain nourishing, or brain building. Whatever phrase you prefer, the point is crucial, and thrilling: as a result of the words we use and the actions we take, children’s brains will actually change, and be built, as they undergo new experiences.
- Daniel J. Siegel
Collection: Meaningful
Image of Daniel J. Siegel
...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.
- Daniel J. Siegel
Collection: Meaningful
Image of Olive Ann Burns
...But I don't think I'm the only person who is tired of books and movies full of paper-doll characters you don't care about, who have no self-respect and no respect for anybody or any institution....And I don't want to sound preachy or Victorian, but I'm tired of amorality in fiction and in real life. Immorality is a fascinating human dilemma that creates suspense for the readers and tension for the characters, but where is the tension in an amoral situation? When people have no personal code, nothing is threatening and nothing is meaningful.
- Olive Ann Burns
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Image of Sena Jeter Naslund
Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.
- Sena Jeter Naslund
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Image of Arthur C. Brooks
Happiness isn't found in some finite checklist of goals that we can diligently complete and then coast. It's how we live our lives in the process. That's why the four pillars of happiness are faith, family, community and meaningful work. Those are priorities we have to keep investing in.
- Arthur C. Brooks
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Image of Kelly Corrigan
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.
- Kelly Corrigan
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Image of Daniel Pinchbeck
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
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Image of Kelly Reilly
Every moment of living has its own logic, its own meaning.
- Kelly Reilly
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Image of Laura Schlessinger
You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.
- Laura Schlessinger
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Image of 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
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Image of Nelson Rockefeller
The United Nations, he told an audience at Harvard University, 'has not been able-nor can it be able-to shape a new world order which events so compellingly demand.' ... The new world order that will answer economic, military, and political problems, he said, 'urgently requires, I believe, that the United States take the leadership among all free peoples to make the underlying concepts and aspirations of national sovereignty truly meaningful through the federal approach.'
- Nelson Rockefeller
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Image of Brian Weiss
One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.
- Brian Weiss
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Image of Mordecai Richler
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
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Image of Rachel Naomi Remen
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. When we find new eyes, the unsuspected blessing in work we have done for many years may take us completely by surprise. We can see life in many ways: with the eye, with the mind, with the intuition. But perhaps it is only those who speak the language of meaning, who have remembered how to see with the heart, that life is ever deeply known or served.
- Rachel Naomi Remen
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Image of John L. Parker Jr.
Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing.
- John L. Parker Jr.
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Image of Ken Blanchard
Many people measure their success by wealth, recognition, power and status. There's nothing wrong with those, but if that's all you're focused on, you're missing the boat...if you focus on significance -using your time and talent to serve others -that's when truly meaningful success can come your way.
- Ken Blanchard
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Image of Seth
Realize that your physical experience and environment is the materialization of your beliefs. If you find great exuberance, health, effective work, abundance, smiles on the faces of those who you meet, then take it for granted that your beliefs are beneficial. If you see a world that is good, people like you, take it for granted again, that your beliefs are beneficial. But if you find poor health, a lack of meaningful work, a lack of abundance, a world of sorrow and evil, then assume your beliefs are faulty and begin examining them.
- Seth
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Image of Hu Shih
Whenever you do something without asking yourself, "Why am I doing this?"-that is meaningless life... . The "why" of life makes it meaningful... . Only when an answer is given is one living life as a man.
- Hu Shih
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Image of Peter Brook
The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.
- Peter Brook
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Image of Scarlett Thomas
It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness?
- Scarlett Thomas
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Image of Dave Pelzer
Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.
- Dave Pelzer
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Image of Harry Mulisch
If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?
- Harry Mulisch
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Image of Gail Sheehy
As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.
- Gail Sheehy
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Image of Max Barry
There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.
- Max Barry
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Image of Julian Baggini
Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy.
- Julian Baggini
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Image of Larry Crabb
Godly people... nobly endure hard things. They know that their existence is meaningful and that they are destined for unlimited pleasure at the deepest level in heaven. Because they keenly feel that nothing now quite meets the standards of their longing souls, the quiet but deeply throbbing ache within them drives them not to compalint, but to anticipation and further yieldedness.
- Larry Crabb
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Image of Stephanie Nielson
Their words of encouragement were just what I needed. I was doing a great job, and I appreciated their cheers. I felt a dormlike camaraderie in the burn unit, since each of us knew the challenges we were facing like no one else could, and therefore how meaningful each triumph was.
- Stephanie Nielson
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Image of George Sanders
Live. Let nothing be lost upon you. Be afraid of nothing.
- George Sanders
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Image of John H. Groberg
Jesus made saving repentance possible and He made baptism meaningful.
- John H. Groberg
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Image of Brendon Burchard
A life filled with silly social drama and gossip indicates that a person is disconnected from purpose and lacking meaningful goals. People on a path of purpose don't have time for drama.
- Brendon Burchard
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Image of Chris Rose
To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.
- Chris Rose
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Image of James Redfield
As we blossom or awaken, we begin to notice there is a force in the world that seems to be operating and leading us into a certain destiny. And it's very much a kind of detective effort on our own part to figure out what these things mean. The synchronicity is essentially a meaningful coincidence that brings us information at just the right time. While leading us forward, it also feels very inspiring and destined in a way. It feels like we're on a path of unfolding in our own personal evolution.
- James Redfield
Collection: Meaningful
Image of James Redfield
[Learn] to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life. We call them coincidences, but if we look closely we see they are meaningful. They bring us just the right information at just the right time to extend our careers, relationships, and growth. These events feel destined in some way, as though the world is set up to help us make a better life, work through our problems, and reach our dreams - if we just pay attention.
- James Redfield
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Image of William Julius Wilson
I think it is difficult to achieve a meaningful political coalition if you have race-based programs that divide members of the coalition. The problem I have, however, is that white people assume an either/or position: Either we have race-based programs or we don't. What I see is comprehensive social reform that includes race-based and race-neutral programs.
- William Julius Wilson
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Image of Thomas Szasz
We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility
- Thomas Szasz
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Image of Jeffrey Sachs
Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.
- Jeffrey Sachs
Collection: Meaningful
Image of Tom Brokaw
The meaningful role of the father of the bride was played out long before the church music began. It stretched across those years of infancy and puberty, adolescence and young adulthood. That's when she needs you at her side.
- Tom Brokaw
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Image of Ralph Marston
Today is an opportunity to do something positive. Today is your chance to add new value to your life and to your world. Make the commitment to fill this day with meaningful richness and purposeful effort. This is your day to live, so do so with vigor and enthusiasm.
- Ralph Marston
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Image of Shawn Achor
For two minutes a day, think of one positive experience that's occurred during the past 24 hours. Bullet point each detail you can remember. It works, because the brain can't tell the difference between visualization and actual experience. So you've just doubled the most meaningful experience in your brain.
- Shawn Achor
Collection: Meaningful
Image of Portia de Rossi
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.
- Portia de Rossi
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Image of David Niven
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
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Image of Oswald Spengler
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
- Oswald Spengler
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Image of Bruno Schulz
How can one not succumb and allow one's courage to fail when everything is shut tight, when all meaningful things are walled up, and when you constantly knock against bricks, as against the walls of a prison?
- Bruno Schulz
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