They measured meaning by asking questions like "How often did you feel that your life has a sense of direction or meaning to it?"

他们通过问这样的问题来衡量意义，如：“你觉得你的生活有方向感或意义感的频率有多高？”

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Some goals, like kindness, integrity, and being self-disciplined, enhance the meaning and quality of life, whereas others only feed into your sense of defectiveness, Dr. Leahy says.

Leahy说，一些目标，比如好心，正直，自我约束都能增加生活的意义，提高生活的水平，而其他的一些则只是改善你的缺陷。

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Different people find different ways to fill their life with meaning. One thing is clear though: meaning comes from developing a sense of purpose.

不同的人会找到不同的方式使他们的生活充满意义，但有一件事是确定的：意义来自培养有目标的感觉。

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Modern poetry arises, in Eliot's case, with the death of God, with the loss of a theological justification for life, with a sense of disenchantment, a sense of depletion, depletion of meaning and value.

在艾略特而言，现代诗歌的兴起，与对上帝信仰的消失，以及对生活不再在理论使其合理化，及人们的觉醒，对意义和价值的耗尽是相伴相随的。

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It resides in our love for our families, the support of our friends, the strength of our communities, our ability to participate fully in the life of society, a sense of meaning and purpose in our lives.

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Almost nine out of 10 said they had found a deeper sense of meaning or purpose in life.

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This is great news because our right brain is responsible for empathy, connection, our sense of a greater meaning in life, and surprise surprise, the processing of stories.

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