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.

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.