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.

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated...

The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially like the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and...

If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.

When all the forces in your organism come into play, then life will begin to play around you as well. You’ll see what your eyes are closed to now, and you’ll hear what you’ve never...

I have finally figured out the meaning of life: there’s no such thing. And that’s a beautiful thing, because that means that WE get to choose it ourselves. Life has no meaning besides the meaning...

She had stumbled on what was possibly the ultimate truth, the greatest wisdom of all – the search for knowledge never ends. It goes on and on forever.

Do you know a cure for me?”Why yes,” he said, “I know a cure for everything. Salt water.”Salt water?” I asked him.Yes,” he said, “in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the...

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Man is able to snatch everything except one thing, the last of human freedoms: the choice of an attitude under any given set of circumstances to determine his own path.

As for wealth, we live in a civilization which piously denies that it is an end in itself, and treats it exactly this way in practice. One of the most powerful indictments of capitalism is...

What does this think about that?Nothing thinks about anything.Does the earth have consciousness of its stones and plants?If it did, it would be people. . .Why am I worrying about this?If I think about these...

What was the point of finding something worth living for if my life was no longer in my own hands?

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I’ve got.

The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.

In order to lead a meaningful life, you need to cherish others, pay attention to human values and try to cultivate inner peace.

Our once simple, unified meaning of life is being shattered into many, sometimes competing, concepts.

How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

There are essentially two questions in life – a spiritual question and a material question. The spiritual question is ‘Who am I?’ The material question is ‘What am I to do with my life?’ One...

If you want to have the time of your life, change how you use the time in your life.

There is only Love — and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

I don’t bother with rhyme. RarelyAre two trees the same, one beside the other.I think and write like flowers have colorBut with less perfection in my way of expressing myselfBecause I lack the divine simplicityOf...

We all have cracks and tears and shattered glass within our souls. Some have more than others. We do not wish to seek one who has none; but we wish to find the one who...

Between the natural way and the path of grace there is a deep abyss. It is in that gap that we live our lives as a giant struggle between good and evil, Satan and God,...

Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human?

Love is seeking the good and being the good.

At times, he admitted, he had been very happy in the apple business. He knew what Larch would have told him: that his happiness was not the point, or that it wasn’t as important as...