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…concentrate on accomplishing a few meaningful achievements, and once you’ve gained status by demonstrating excellence, feel free to be more assertive.
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Wins needn’t be large to be meaningful.
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…being able to sniff the finish line – whether it offers a hunk of cheese or a slice of meaning – can invigorate us to move faster.
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When time is constrained and limited… we attune to the now. We pursue different goals – emotional satisfaction, an appreciation for life, a sense of meaning.
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…research found that at the core of meaningful endings is one of the most complex emotions humans experience: poignancy, a mix of happiness and sadness.
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Closings, conclusions, and culminations reveal something essential about the human condition: In the end, we seek meaning.
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The benefits of thinking fondly about the past are vast because nostalgia delivers two ingredients essential to well-being: a sense of meaning and a connection to others.
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All of us gravitate toward things that mean something to us, and for most of us, that’s people. – Ami Klin
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This is the gift of training and experience – the ability to extract an enormous amount of meaningful information from the very thinnest slice of experience.
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Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not having meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.
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