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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.
by Paul Ricoeur (Philosopher, French , born in 1913) keywords: appear, arise, brief, cosmic, insignificant, life, meaningful, our, period, questions, scale, time, which, world , yet Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.
by Paul Ricoeur (Philosopher, French , born in 1913) keywords: carries, conditions, contexts, easy, employed, expression, language, manner, meaning, meaningful, ordinary, recognize , which The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
by John Ruskin (Writer, English , born in 1819) keywords: able, being, condition, education, first, meaningful, put, someone, wholesome , work 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.
by Laura Schlessinger (Writer, American , born in 1947) keywords: bring, brings, challenges, courage, dignity, experience, happiness, honor, ideas, life, meaning, meaningful, mundane, pride, principles, requires, respond, seemingly, temptations, ultimately, values , well The United States must also continue to push the United Nations Security Council for strong action to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. In the meantime, it is our job to take meaningful steps to eliminate the threats posed by Iran.
by Allyson Schwartz (Politician, American , born in 1948) keywords: action, also, ambitions, continue, council, eliminate, iran, job, meaningful, meantime, must, nations, nuclear, our, posed, push, security, states, steps, strong, take, threats, thwart , united I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do is important and meaningful.
by Kyra Sedgwick (Actor, American , born in 1965) keywords: because, believe, compassion, exercise, important, meaningful, really, reason, some , want These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
by Douglas Sirk (Director, German , born in 1897) keywords: condition, endings, excellent, express, happy, joint, meaningful, out, promise, rotten, sly, these, ultimately, weak , world 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.
by Oswald Spengler (Philosopher, German , born in 1880) keywords: act, been, bestowed, life, live, lives, make, may, meaningful, our, ourselves, part, possible, proud, purpose, some, such, upon, us , way All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.
by Rudolf Steiner (Philosopher, Austrian , born in 1861) keywords: become, begins, incomprehensible, language, meaningful, nature, now, our, previously, secrets, soul, sounds, through, us, were , whisper Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.
by John Stossel (Journalist, American , born in 1947) keywords: comes, happiness, meaningful, our, purpose, skills, some, test , towards I remember those days with Bergman with great nostalgia. We were aware that the films were going to be quite important, and the work felt meaningful.
by Max von Sydow (Actor, Swedish , born in 1929) keywords: aware, bergman, days, felt, films, going, great, important, meaningful, nostalgia, quite, remember, those, were , work Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
by Thomas Szasz (Psychologist, American , born in 1920) topics: Society keywords: among, because, collective, creates, democratic, distinctions, guilt, individual, meaningful, meaningless, men, mind, moral, now, odious, prefer, punishment, responsibility, unfashionable , which After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route to self-determination for the Puerto Rican people under our federal system.
by Dick Thornburgh (Politician, American , born in 1932) keywords: after, federal, first, house, hundred, meaningful, moved, our, provide, puerto, representatives, rican, route, rule, self-determination, states, system, under, united , years The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.
by Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Statesman, Indian , born in 1924) keywords: abandons, dialogue, foreign, held, india, instrument, meaningful, overwhelming, pakistan, policy, public, sentiment, terrorism, until , use People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
by Kurt Vonnegut (Author, American , born in 1922) keywords: anything, boxes, case, ever, good, just, keep, meaningful, order, really, say, something, talk, their, voice , working 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.
by Robert Penn Warren (Novelist, American , born in 1905) topics: Poetry keywords: capacity, end, life, light, little, making, man, may, meaningful, myth, poem, rather, see, thing , which Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
by Martin Yan (Celebrity, Chinese , born in 1948) keywords: applause, believe, comes, done, get, happiness, how, many, meaningful, much, nothing, praise, something, truly , within