What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew
Robert BrowningTag: age poetry youth meaning growth
God, it's like reality's completely shifted on me. I used to think I was standing on such solid ground. If I wanted something badly enough, I just worked like hell for it. Now I can't decide what to do, which move to make. All the things I counted on aren't there for me anymore.
Tess GerritsenA singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.
Anne RiceTag: humor reason meaning logic glass vampire lestat luxury singer
The ways of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning—the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life—a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.
Jed RubenfeldMan cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.
Ernest BeckerTag: meaning existentialism
When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.
Rollo MayTag: meaning existentialism relationship
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
Friedrich NietzscheTag: meaning existentialism
when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the land; and this proves that man was not born to be idle.
VoltaireMartin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
VoltaireTag: life meaning misery boredom
...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.
Daniel J. SiegelTag: mind memory meaning brain neuropsychology
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