"I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."
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"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."
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"It is this spiritual freedom - which cannot be taken away - that makes life meaningful and purposeful."
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"It was his subconscious which told him this - that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing."
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"The wise man, after learning something new, is afraid to learn anything more until he has put his first lesson into practice."
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"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."
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"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
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"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
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"The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose."
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"We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress."
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"The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds"
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"I will not be labelled as average."
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"You can't tell a good story without conflict - the story can't be beautiful or meaningful. We're taught to run from conflict, and it's robbing us of some really good stories."
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"Synchronicity reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world."
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"Memory is not just the imprint of the past time upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears."
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"I am willing to let go. I release others to experience whatever is meaningful to them, and I am free to create that which is meaningful to me."
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"The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be."
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"Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow."
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"This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth."
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"Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine."
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