{"quotes":[{"text":"I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.","author":"Fennel Hudson","tags":["artist","meaningful-life","writer","writers-life","writing"],"id":2859,"author_id":"Fennel+Hudson"},{"text":"Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God.","author":"Jim George","tags":["bring","christian","faith","god","happiness","life","meaning","meaningful","meaningful-life","nothing","true"],"id":10830,"author_id":"Jim+George"},{"text":"If you want a meaningful life for yourself don't ask 'What can the world offer to me?' but 'What can I offer to the world?","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["changing-the-way-you-think","changing-the-world","life","life-lessons","life","life-and-sayings","meaning-of-life","meaning-of-life","meaningful-life","meaningful-living","meaningful-work"],"id":15418,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Sharing your life with someone will have much more meaning coming from a place of independence rather than co-dependence.","author":"Gary Hopkins","tags":["co-dependence","common-sense","contentment","divine","energy-medicine","happiness","higher-power","independence","meaning","meaningful-life"],"id":17684,"author_id":"Gary+Hopkins"},{"text":"Any meaning of life derives from amiably accepting our anonymous role in the singular order of the universe. Such gracious reception of life’s turbulences stems from willingly capitulating to whatever fomented experiences life brings us without harboring a disconsolate degree of remorse or regret.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["acceptance","acceptance","adversity","adversity","hardship","hardship","hardships-in-life","hardships-perspective","meaningful-life","meaningful-life","painful-memories","regret","regret","regret","remorse"],"id":22102,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Any meaning of life derives from amiably accepting our anonymous role in the singular order of the universe. Such gracious reception of life’s turbulences stems from willingly capitulating to whatever fomented experiences life brings us without harboring a disconsolate degree of remorse or regret.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["acceptance","acceptance","adversity","adversity","hardship","hardship","hardships-in-life","hardships-perspective","meaningful-life","meaningful-life","painful-memories","regret","regret","regret","remorse"],"id":22102,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"We can only hope to live a meaningful life by serving as earnest witnesses to life’s tragic beauty.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["enlightenment","enlightenment-principles","enlightenment","meaning-of-life","meaningful","meaningful-life","meaningful-life"],"id":26862,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"We can only hope to live a meaningful life by serving as earnest witnesses to life’s tragic beauty.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["enlightenment","enlightenment-principles","enlightenment","meaning-of-life","meaningful","meaningful-life","meaningful-life"],"id":26862,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"☺☺ When a man gets you 99, he starts to think, he may only have another 10 years of sexy lovemaking left... Still Smiling At 99. ☺☺.","author":"Michael Levy","tags":["books","humor","laughter-is-the-best-medicine","meaningful-life","mindfulness","philosophy","poetry","society","truth","wisdom-insights"],"id":43119,"author_id":"Michael+Levy"},{"text":"I am constantly mystified by what John ends up remembering… I just don’t understand why he’s able to hang on to information like that, while so many other more important memories evaporate. Then again, I suppose so much of what stays with us is often insignificant. The memories we take to the ends of our lives have no real rhyme or reason, especially when you think of the endless things that you do over the course of a day, a week, a month, a year, a lifetime. All the cups of coffee, hand-washings, changes of clothes, lunches, goings to the bathroom, headaches, naps, walks to school, trips to the grocery store, conversations about the weather—all the things so unimportant they should be immediately forgotten. Yet they aren’t. I often think of the Chinese red bathrobe I had when I was twenty-seven years old; the sound of our first cat Charlie’s feet on the linoleum of our old house; the hot rarefied air around aluminum pot the moment before the kernels of popcorn burst open. I think of these things as often as I think about getting married or giving birth or the end of the Second World War. What is truly amazing is that before you know it, sixty years go by and you can remember maybe eight or nine important events, along with a thousand meaningless ones. How can that be?You want to think there’s a pattern to it all because it makes you feel better, gives you some sense of a reason why we’re here, but there really isn’t any. People look for God in these patterns, these reasons, but only because they don’t know where else to look.Things happen to us: some of it important, most of it not, and a little of it stays with us till the end. What stays after that? I’ll be damned if I know.(pp.174-175).","author":"Michael Zadoorian","tags":["after-death","aging","end-of-life","end-of-life-musings","lifetime","meaningful-life","memories","memory","memory-loss","moments","ordinary-life","patterns","reason","time","time-passing"],"id":48060,"author_id":"Michael+Zadoorian"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":91,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}