Quotes by Meaningful The big thing that's happened is, in the time since the Affordable Care Act has been going on, our medical science has been advancing. We have now genomic data. We have the power of big data about what your living patterns are, what's happening in your body. Even your smartphone can collect data about your walking or your pulse or other things that could be incredibly meaningful in being able to predict whether you have disease coming in the future and help avert those problems. Atul Gawande care helping meaningful I like my name. My mom named me after a song by the 1970s group Bread. So, it's meaningful, and I like the song. It's a love song - kind of - but it's kind of depressing and dark. Aubrey Plaza mom song meaningful It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life. Audre Lorde destiny mistake meaningful As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action. Audre Lorde differences meaningful ideas I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. Audre Lorde pluck self meaningful As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live. Audre Lorde acceptance self meaningful I think that literary forms are losing their capacity to connect people to issues, to the experiences that feel most meaningful to them. Ayad Akhtar meaningful people thinking As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful. Ayelet Waldman writing meaningful memories Mindfulness is not just a word or a Ayya Khema suffering mind meaningful Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society is offering very limited options for youth. And that while society points to a radical decline in living wage jobs for youth and meaningful and affordable education, hip-hop is offering an alternative legitimate economy that is giving youth hope. Bakari Kitwana offering meaningful jobs We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics. Barack Obama tragedy together meaningful another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done. Barack Obama meaningful believe country In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education. Barack Obama meaningful children art Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity. Barbara Brown Taylor opportunity meaningful jobs Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it. Barbara Brown Taylor church meaningful character At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. Barbara Bush meaningful inspirational life Everybody can justify their actions. We all think that we're doing things for reasons that are meaningful to us. Maybe not to other people, but to us. Barbara Crampton meaningful people thinking The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present. Barbara De Angelis letting-go meaningful love Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . . Barbara De Angelis sacred space meaningful Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. Barbara Kingsolver pain spiritual meaningful «23456789101112»