Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.
I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don’t want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
There is nothing outside the text.
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what’s so.
It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
It’s now or never. I ain’t gonna live forever. I just wanna live while I’m alive. It’s my life.
The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.
The map is not the territory, the word is not the thing it describes. Whenever the map is confused with the territory, a ‘semantic disturbance’ is set up in the organism. The disturbance continues until the limitation of the map is recognized.
You just decide what your values are in life and what you are going to do, and then you feel like you count, and that makes life worth living. It makes my life meaningful.
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.