#meaning

August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--" Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't... August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life #meaning #values #life

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop. ↗

— Herbert Stein

#forever #meaning #reality #sense #life

Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways cannot be known, oh man." Which is to say, "My ways do not make sense, nor do the ways of those who dwell in me. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#meaninglessness #life

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#meaning #life

I blame my dad for my sweet tooth. His motto was 'Life is short; eat dessert first.' How can I argue with that? ↗

— Wendy Mass

#life-is-short #meaning-of-life #motto #life

I'm starting to think that maybe this world is just a place for us to learn we need each other more than we want to admit. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#helping-others #learning #life #meaning-of-life #need

Be a lover of the world, it is the only way to survive in it. ↗

— Janosch

#meaning-of-life #world #life

He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? But to act justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God. ↗

— Anonymous

#life

We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We need to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—hourly and daily. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answers to its problems and to fulfill the task which it constantly sets for each individual. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#existentialism #holocaust #man-s-search-for-meaning #life

That’s when you realize the most of it—life, the relentless mechanism of existing—isn’t about you. It doesn’t include you at all. It will thrust onward even after you’ve jumped the edge. Even after you’re dead. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#meaningful #inspirational