our situation reminded me of a fable I had read somewhere. Chased by a tiger, a man slips and falls over the edge of a mountain. As he falls, he manages to grab a bush...

There is a meaning of life but I’ve been sworn to secrecy.

Grandchildren are their grandparents’ toys.

The alternative to pain may be worse. When you live with an open heart, you will inevitably get hurt. The alternative of living a life closed off from experience, however, is barren. Ironically, it also...

He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!He’s stupid if he doesn’t know other people’s unhappiness is theirs,And isn’t cured from the outside,Because suffering isn’t like running out of ink,Or...

To every thig there is a season,a time for every purpose under the sun.A time to be born,and a time to die.A time to plant,and a time to recap.A time to weep,and I time to...

Jesus was not a carpenter forever.

Synchronicity is the soul’s reminder of authorship.

He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.

I still do not understand why some people think they mean nothing to anyone; while their simple smile gives unlimited reasons for others to live.

Wouldn’t it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?

Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention

Why then you’re as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust ‘reality’ and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was ‘Life is short; eat dessert first.’ How can I argue with that?

The truth is we’re all dying, the lie is we’re all living.

LOVE ~ TRUTH ~ FREEDOMare three words that mean the smae, and none may exist without the other present.

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view...

The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is…42!

As a young man, he had instinctively husbanded the freshness of his powers. At the time, it was too soon to see that this freshness was giving birth to vivacity and gaiety, and shape to...

There’s no sense forcing yourself if you don’t feel like it. Tell you the truth, I’ve had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared...

Cultures produce myths because they satisfy a deep-rooted human need: the need to make sense of life. Myths are appealing because they reduce the complexity of experience, by making things seem simple and absolute; myths...

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters.

If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive.

She asked another question: “What does it matter if the rhinos die out? Is it really important that they are saved?”This would normally have riled me… but I had comes to think of her as...

Praise be to God I’m not good,And have the natural egotism of flowersAnd rivers following their bedPreoccupied without knowing itOnly with blooming and flowing.This is the only mission in the World,This—to exist clearly,And to know...

In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.

The alchemists of past centuries tried hard to make the elixir of life: … Those efforts were in vain; it is not in our power to obtain the experiences and the views of the future...

Life has only three states-Happiness,Grief and Emptiness.The extreme state of life is emptiness.

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

Life doesn’t happen suddenly. It fades in.

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

It made our presence in the world meaningful; we still served a purpose.

He tried to disguise how tired and ill he was, how depressing the thought of death was to him and how he spent his days and nights thinking up schemes of living beyond what the...

We are all children in the dark, finding our way together to the light. Many define the light before the light is reached and fix on their defining. There in the dark they clamor for...

The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful.

Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Lord, give me what you have made me want; I praise and thank you for the desire that you have inspired; perfect what you have begun, and grant me who you have made me long...

Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were...

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh

Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight.

I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific...

God makes it all come right in the end, that’s what Johnnie told Dock Barker just before we parted company. I was raised a Christian-I admit I fell away a bit along my journey-and I...

It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings, had instilled into him, and never the desires of his own heart. Always...

Remember your humanity and forget the rest.