#meaning

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do. ↗

— Soichiro Honda

#arise #best #equipped #go #goes

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#guardians #i #i wonder #in fact #life

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#feeling #hope #life #meaning #regardless

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#bothers #him #his #knows #less

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#gives #life #meaning #purpose #without

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#bad #bad fortune #believe #believed #come

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#hidden #meaning #reality #somewhere #them

I think America understands that energy security is a very important part of our national security. But if we are going to address energy security in a meaningful way going forward, we need to do it in a new manner. We cannot just be doing the same old thing. ↗

— Chris Van Hollen

#america #cannot #doing #energy #energy security

I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#also #away #before #causes #crisis

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#could #country #democracy #expanded #first