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THOMAS JEFFERSON:
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
TOM LEHRER:
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
TONI MORRISON:
Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.
UNKNOWN:
Life would be much easier if I had the source code.
URSULA K. LEGUIN:
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
VICTOR FRANKL:
If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.
