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"Find what is meaningful to you and stand by it. Even if you begin to wonder if there is any meaning to anything, continue to be yourself."

"Living deeply requires more than a static vivisection of a person's history and a cold survey of the world. Living a meaningful life entails immersion in the continuous flow of life through passionate thinking, observation, and directed action."

"The thing that matters most is what matters to you, not anybody else."

"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything.... It is not that 'God' is a myth, but that myth is the revelation of a divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather, it speaks to us as a Word of God."

"The word dyting is not synonymous with the word useless."

"The thing about 'colour' is that it's not all about the money or the prestige, but it's about showing what life is all about. Without it..."

"But does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest of us, and that we all lose everything that matters in the end-and yet to know as well, despite all this, as cruelly as the game is stacked, that it's possible to play it with a kind of joy?To try to make some meaning out of all this seems unbelievably quaint. Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, to paraphrase Boris, maybe I see a pattern because it's there."
Explore more quotes by Kate Smith

"Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time."

"Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously."

"I vowed that whenever my family needed me, I would give up everything to go to them, no matter what. The show must go on was meaningless to me."

"Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food."

"During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches."

"Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds."

"Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women."
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