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- The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
- Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.
- Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning
- Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'
- Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's Weblog, 04-12-2006
- Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.
- Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 5, 08-22-04
- When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
- Margaret Wheatley
- Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose.
- Alan Moore (1953 - ), Watchmen, 1986
- How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
- If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
- Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963
- My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merchant of Venice", Act 1 scene 3
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