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What is worthwhile?

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow." Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Daily Review | Readwise

Your passions should fit you exactly but your purpose in life should exceed you. Work for something much larger than yourself.

Kevin Kelly • Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

In recent years, I've begun to suspect that a life consumed by ideas will not bring me closer to the divine. The freedom I seek, it seems, doesn't lie in my laying about, steeped in my own brain, but rather in the stillness I've found in the more mundane moments of my life. In these moments, there is no euphoria, nor even any active reflection on... See more

Nadia • Glimpsing God

If you want to understand someone’s identity, ask: Where do you want to belong?

Jessica Hagy • Ten Infrequently Asked Questions

"The hardest thing to teach a student—and the hardest thing to believe consistently—is that there is nothing ‘out there’ to go and get. There is no part, no career, no opportunity for which you should be searching and scrounging and coveting. All of the preparation is within, and you keep yourself mentally and physically fit; you remain generous

“Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.”

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C.Neil Strait

A quote by C.Neil Strait

"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things... See more

pbs.org • John Gardner : Education and Excellence

“The child says: ‘When I am a big boy.’ But what is that? The big boy says, ‘When I grow up.’ And then, grown up, he says: ‘When I get married.’ But to be married, what is that after all? The thought changes to ‘When I’m able to retire.’ And then, when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it;