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“Significance is sweet.”
Ivan Turgenev
Meaning
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Fulfillment
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Purpose
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Inner Value
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Life’s Worth
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“Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.”
Camille Paglia
Reading
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Meaning
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Philosophy
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Knowledge
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Humanity
3.
“The poorest man I know is the man who has nothing but money.”
John D. Rockefeller
Wealth
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Poverty
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Meaning
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Life
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Perspective
4.
“I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.”
John D. Rockefeller
Pleasure
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Life
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Meaning
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Purpose
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Balance
5.
“The root of great companies is to make meaning versus to make money.”
Guy Kawasaki
Business
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Meaning
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Success
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Purpose
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Entrepreneurship
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“The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.”
Guy Kawasaki
Business
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Success
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Meaning
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Impact
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Purpose
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“Meaning is not creating a cool place to work with free food, Ping-Pong, volleyball, and dogs. Meaning is making the world a better place.”
Guy Kawasaki
Meaning
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Purpose
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Work
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Impact
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Values
8.
“The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
Guy Kawasaki
Entrepreneurship
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Meaning
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Impact
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Innovation
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Purpose
9.
“A laxity pervades the popular use of words.”
Charles Lamb
Language
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Words
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Meaning
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Precision
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Communication
10.
“Better to be lost for something worthwhile. Instead of getting lost in everything worthless.”
Ankur Warikoo
Purpose
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Value
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Direction
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Loss
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Meaning
11.
“A meaningful job need not be one that completely consumes your whole life.”
Ankur Warikoo
Job
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Meaning
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Balance
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Purpose
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Life
12.
“Made it to top college. Or didn't. Got a job. Or not. Got married. Or not. To the world, our life is just multiple events of success and failure. To us, our life is what happens between those events.”
Ankur Warikoo
Life
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Events
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Perception
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Journey
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Meaning
13.
“To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb.”
Jimmy Carter
Faith
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Action
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Belief
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Spirituality
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Meaning
14.
“Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Life
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Manifestation
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Meaning
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Awareness
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Influence
15.
“You can use your life in a very useful and intelligent way. You can very well transform that negative energy into a positive energy that empowers you and makes life meaningful.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
Life
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Transformation
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Energy
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Positivity
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Meaning
16.
“Silence is better than unmeaning words.”
Pythagoras
Silence
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Speech
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Wisdom
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Meaning
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Restraint
17.
“It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.”
Pythagoras
Speech
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Silence
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Wisdom
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Meaning
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Restraint
18.
“Meaningful silence is better than meaningless words.”
Pythagoras
Silence
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Words
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Meaning
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Speech
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Thought
19.
“The oldest, shortest words – ‘yes’ and ‘no’ – are those which require the most thought.”
Pythagoras
Decisions
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Words
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Meaning
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Simplicity
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Thought
20.
“You say I took the name in vain I don’t even know the name But if I did, well really, what’s it to you? There’s a blaze of light in every word It doesn’t matter which you heard The holy or the broken Hallelujah.”
Leonard Cohen
Faith
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Words
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Light
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Meaning
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Spirituality
21.
“I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.”
Leonard Cohen
Expression
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Words
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Simplicity
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Communication
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Meaning
22.
“Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.”
Leonard Cohen
Music
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Meaning
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Creation
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Humanity
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Expression
23.
“This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can’t live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.”
Leonard Cohen
Love
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Life
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Meaning
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Emotion
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Relationships
24.
“No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man’s despair may become, as long as he continues to be a man his very humanity continues to tell him that life has a meaning.”
Thomas Merton
Humanity
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Hope
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Meaning
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Despair
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Resilience
25.
“Ultimately faith is the only key to the universe. The final meaning of human existence, and the answers to the questions on which all our happiness depends cannot be found in any other way.”
Thomas Merton
Faith
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Universe
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Existence
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Meaning
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Happiness
26.
“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.”
Thomas Merton
Self-Discovery
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Exploration
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Wisdom
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Perspective
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Meaning
27.
“Happiness that is sought for ourselves alone can never be found.”
Thomas Merton
Happiness
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Selflessness
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Fulfillment
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Meaning
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Love
28.
“Love is our true destiny.”
Thomas Merton
Love
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Destiny
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Purpose
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Connection
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Meaning
29.
“The purpose of our lives is to find the purpose of our lives.”
Thomas Merton
Purpose
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Meaning
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Life
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Self-Discovery
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Fulfillment
30.
“Stop asking yourself questions that have no meaning. Or if they have, you’ll find out when you need to – find out both the questions and the answers.”
Thomas Merton
Questions
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Meaning
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Discovery
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Reflection
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Clarity
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