A family is not decided by blood but by bonds.

To be more precise… death is [contrary to] God, and if death is natural, if it is the ultimate truth about life and about the world, if it is the highest and immutable law about...

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

The quality of your life is directly proportional to the positive effect you have on others’ lives.

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they’re so empirically familiar with how atheists think.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning.

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.

Sometimes when I watch my dog, I think about how good life can be, if we only lose ourselves in our stories. Lucy doesn’t read self-help books about how to be a dog; she just...

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death – and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.

This has been the name of our organization for 70 years. We believe it has taken on a meaning independent of the word itself — and it’s positive.

When we are courageous enough to begin exploring the ‘Why’s” and the ‘Who’s’ of life, the ‘How’s’ and ‘What’s’ of life start to come into focus as well. “

I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that… But it’s what I meant.

Time is the answer to the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

When someone asks me what a song is about, it’s like, I feel like I might ruin it if you ask me that. I feel like I did my best to explain the song in...

I take a picture, but it’s not about who is in the picture or the background of it. It’s about the memories and meanings it holds.

but it’s not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. “Stay with me.” As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper...

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

[…] I’ve come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold...

Life is not something that “has” meaning. It’s something we give meaning to. You don’t “end up” with a meaningful life, you create it.

. . . when we take upon ourselves his yoke of obedience, his yoke is easy, his burden is light (Matt. 11:28-30). When is a burden light? It is when we find our burdensome lives...

While we all share God’s powerful DNA, we’re also individual expressions of God. Meaning, there’s no one else quite like you. So set the intention now to become clear on exactly what strengths and talents...

Right person, wrong timing doesn’t mean God was wrong. It means you were there at the right time to fulfill something else. Look for it.

Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives,...

Sometimes in the evening on Summer days,Even when there’s not a breeze at all, it seemsLike there’s a light breeze blowing for a minuteBut the trees are unmovingIn every leaf of their leavesAnd our feelings...

What’s the use in prolonging life if you don’t do anything with it?

…we, and I mean humans, are meaning makers. We do not discover the meanings of mysterious things, we invent them. We make meanings because meaninglessness terrifies us above all things. More than snakes, even. More...

I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is ‘Disappear...

We have no way of knowing, of course, why some are born in health and affluence, while others enter broken bodies or broken homes, or emerge into a realm of war or hunger. So we...

Logically, this kind of atheism did not prove that there was no God…. On the contrary, Southwell was typical in placing the onus probandi on those who affirmed the existence of God and Holyoake regarded...

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It gives an aim and meaning to existence as well as a knowledge, understanding, love, and admiration for...

A writer draws a road map where readers walks with their love, joy, anger, tears, and dismay. Every story, every poem, has different meanings for every reader.

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a...

If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

It’s perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth. It’s something we have invented to explain the inexplicable. My religion and the spiritual side of my life come from a sense of connection to...

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

Again and again our Lord allows the world to crumble to the breaking point, so that people may feel the pain and learn to understand their place in the universe under a sovereign and loving...

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

A sacred picture of Saint Anthony alone is one vertical, unwavering band of light. If a cockroach were near him, or a cocktail waitress, the picture would be two such bands of light. Our awareness...

But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the atheist’s head. The orthodox believer likes to think that nothing is left. That, however, is because he...

We can’t stop reading. Compulsively we find ourselves reading significance into dreams (we construct a science upon it); into tea-leaves and the fall of cards. We look up at the shifting vapours in the sky,...

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be...

So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless. We are living in...

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and we must not fundamentalise any of them.

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.

when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.

That thing over there was more there than it’s there!Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn’t exist.But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be,And the rest are the dreams...