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It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life. -- Bryant H. McGill
It is your friends who make your world. -- William James
To be free is to have achieved your life. -- Tennessee Williams
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy
All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten. -- Robert Fulghum
Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. -- George Gershwin
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. -- Bertrand Russell
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. -- Alfred Adler
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. -- Henri Nouwen
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. -- Oscar Wilde
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. -- Tennessee Williams
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. -- William Morris
The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, cry, and dream -- Helen Keller
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either. -- Donald Miller
Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives. -- Terry Tempest Williams
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. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities. -- Rosalynn Carter
The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life. -- Robert Penn Warren
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
If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won't like you. It may not be easy, but it's essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs. -- Cheryl Richardson
Friends are an indispensable part of a meaningful life. They are the ones who share our burdens and multiply our blessings. A true friend sticks by us in our joys and sorrows. In good times and bad, we need friends who will pray for us, listen to us, and lend a comforting hand and an understanding ear when needed. -- Beverly LaHaye
The practice of altruism is the authentic way to live as a human being, and it is not just for religious people. As human beings, our purpose is to live meaningful lives, to develop a warm heart. There is meaning in being everyone's friend. The real source of peace amongst our families, friends and neighbours is love and compassion. -- Dalai Lama
For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work. -- Timothy Ferriss
I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring. -- Michael Sheen
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. -- Corazon Aquino
Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend. -- Susan Hill
Atheists should point out that life without God can be meaningful, moral and happy. -- Julian Baggini
The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important. -- Ed Bradley
You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. -- Stephen Covey
An awareness of one's mortality can lead you to wake up and live an authentic, meaningful life. -- Bernie Siegel
I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully. -- Glen Duncan
And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really. -- Nia Vardalos
It was fun; you know, at this point in my life it's like, I want to do stuff that's meaningful. -- Joan Cusack
While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point. -- David Simon
Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully. -- Greg Graffin
Life has a plan for each of us; we may not understand the whys on our journey but every event is meaningful nonetheless. -- Ken Poirot
There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production. -- Zygmunt Bauman
Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food. -- Peace Pilgrim
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. -- Paul Ricoeur
Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written. -- Steve Harvey
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful. -- Annie Lennox
Life is too meaningful to die. -- Kedar Joshi
Life is painful to be meaningful. -- Kedar Joshi
Does life have any meaningful purpose? -- Tom DeLay
Life is crazy and meaningful at once. -- Carl Jung
Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful. -- Dalai Lama
"...Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy." -- David Steindl-Rast
Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships. -- Brian Tracy
For most people, life would be boring without meaningful work. -- Timothy Ferriss
The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life. -- Bill Phillips
The Atonement is our singular hope for a meaningful life. -- Tad R. Callister
For life to be meaningful, you must have a challenge. -- Roma Downey
There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful -- Sarah Kane
Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal . -- Aristotle
Work isn't meaningful just because you spend your life doing it. -- Anthony Marra
Life is meaningless; man's biggest challenge is to make it meaningful! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
If you find life absurd, shouldn't you find death precisely meaningful? -- Harry Mulisch
Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you. -- Alan Cohen
An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy. -- Oliver North
Life is meaningful when it is dedicated for the wellbeing of others. -- Debasish Mridha
Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life. -- Bryant McGill
Passion is essential for a meaningful existence. Life is about what you feel. -- Jonathan Cainer
Having knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life. -- Billy Graham
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. -- Robert Penn Warren
Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is, -- Lily Collins
Without love of something I don't know if you can have a meaningful life at all. -- Nicholas Sparks
What one thing can you start counting today that will actually be meaningful in your life? -- Chip Conley
There are three levels of happiness: the pleasant life, the good life, and the meaningful life. -- Joel Garreau
Never stop the vibe of parenthood. It just makes you see life in a more meaningful level. -- Karl Gornal
Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life. -- Samael Aun Weor
Selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration. -- Brendon Burchard
Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating. -- Donald Miller
We all want to have a rich and meaningful work life and a fulfilling life beyond work. -- Stewart D. Friedman
One key to creating a meaningful life, is choosing what we want to feel, and for how long. -- Bill Crawford
I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors. -- Kelly Corrigan
It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful. -- Viktor E. Frankl
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures. -- Rudyard Kipling
Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality. -- Meher Baba
Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful. -- Mariane Pearl
Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions. -- Donna Farhi
Just as the good life is something beyond the pleasant life, the meaningful life is beyond the good life. -- Martin Seligman
In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption. -- Timothy Keller
If you're gonna sing meaningful songs, you have to be committed to living a life that backs that up. -- Joan Baez
We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done. -- John C. Maxwell
After you run, there's a sense of accomplishment; you feel like your life is meaningful. It's a moment of clarity. -- Sakyong Mipham
The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life. -- Graham Hill
The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life. -- Michael Bamberger
Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful. -- Sai Baba
Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else. -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life. -- Anton Chekhov
Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence. -- Nhat Hanh
Creating a meaningful life has less to do with how we feel about our past than what we do about our future. -- Bill Crawford
Two things can make life meaningful: books and love. ...I already have books. Now I am setting off in search of love. -- Joel Dicker
Stories are the creative conversion of life itself into a more powerful, clearer, more meaningful experience. They are the currency of human contact. -- Robert McKee
When you are not sure on what to do, choose a life that is most meaningful to you and make it a habit. -- Rita Zahara
one of the most painful things in life is to be considered as meaningless in an environment where you think you are truly meaningful -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life. -- Bryant McGill
Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves...help you. -- Jack LaLanne
We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life. -- Bryant McGill
That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life. -- Umberto Eco
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful. -- Philip K. Dick
If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful. -- Roger Housden
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
...the single most important issue in all of life (is) your relationship with the living God... how you can know Him in a personal and meaningful way. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Deep human connection is ... the purpose and the result of a meaningful life - and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity. -- Melinda Gates
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
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
Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects. -- Chris Guillebeau
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
The thought content of ghazals must be meaningful, related to life, it's emotions of joy and sorrow. It must have the human touch, it should not be phoney. -- Jagjit Singh
I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile. -- Sonja Lyubomirsky
Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life. -- Matthew Hussey
A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others. -- Stephen Covey
Yoga teaches us both to let go and to have exquisite awareness in every moment. We remember our essential spiritual nature and life becomes more joyful, meaningful, and carefree. -- Deepak Chopra
I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life. -- David Petersen
The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern. -- Diane Ackerman

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