Man cannot endure his
Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. Ernest Becker
Meaningfulness
I pull from a
I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life. Elizabeth Lesser
He who has a
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche
It doesn’t have to
It doesn’t have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful. Duane Hanson
Synchronicity is a term
Synchronicity is a term used by Carl Jung to describe coincidences that are related by meaningfulness rather than by cause and effect. David Richo
The words that matter
The words that matter always stay. David Levithan
Each one of us
Each one of us is responsible for the whole of humankind. We need to think of each other really as brothers and sisters and to be concerned for each other’s welfare. Rather than working solely to acquire wealth, we need to do something meaningful, something directed seriously towards the welfare of humanity as a whole. … Read more
Acts of violence– Whether
Acts of violence– Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death–and the meaninglessness of killing. Dag Hammarskjold
Every time you worry
Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don’t care about, you’re dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters-or you’re just … Read more
Why are we reading
Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so that we may feel again their majesty and power? What do we ever know that … Read more