756 Quotes About Meaningful


  • Author Walter Dean Myers
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    Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

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  • Author Yann Martel
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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.

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  • Author David Niven
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    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.

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  • Author Edward Norton
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    Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

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  • Author Jim Nussle
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    There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.

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  • Author Naomi Shihab Nye
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    As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

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  • Author Richard M. Nixon
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    The ability to be cool, confident, and decisive in crisis is not an inherited characteristic but is the direct result of how well the individual has prepared himself for the battle.

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