{"quotes":[{"text":"Meaning beginns in the words, in the action, continues in your head and ends nowhere. There is no end to meaning. Meaning which is resolved, parcelled, labelled and ready for export is dead, impartient — and meaningless.","author":"Pfister","tags":["meaning","meaning-of-life","meaningful","meaningfulness","meaninglessgfulness"],"id":34034,"author_id":"Pfister"},{"text":"However, one day, this shallow living will not be enough for you. You are gifted with a questioning mind that will marvel at the deepest parts of the world around you. It will crave divine understanding because you are part of the divine whole, and it is the nature of the soul to seek to return to its spiritual state.","author":"Grace Sara","tags":["divine","earth","happiness","inspiration","love","meaningfulness","mind-body-spirit","mindfulness","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","soul","soul-searching","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality","understanding"],"id":67028,"author_id":"Grace+Sara"},{"text":"A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["enlightenment","enlightenment-principles","enlightenment","meaningful-life","meaningful-living","meaningfulness","purpose","purpose-driven-life","purposeful-journey","purposeful-living","purposefulness","search-for-truth"],"id":69678,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Find something to help you accept reality. Because after all, that's where the pain's come from - from reality.Find something good, something magnificent, find you something meaningful to fill that hole that's ate you up on the inside.","author":"Stevie J. Cole","tags":["meaningfulness","reality"],"id":78298,"author_id":"Stevie+J.+Cole"},{"text":"Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["beauty","compassion-heals-lives","finding-meaning","flavors","human-beings","human-nature","hunger","meaningfulness","multidimensional-awareness","multidimensionality","national-poetry-month","passion","physical-body","poetic-considerations","poetics","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","self-realization","world-poetry-day","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":80736,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no trees, no oil, no vines, no wine, not even chickens. He asks, 'What kind of life is that?' He says, 'No wonder you don't sing or dance or recite poetry very often.","author":"Robert Fulghum","tags":["agriculture","culture","life","meaningfulness"],"id":122792,"author_id":"Robert+Fulghum"},{"text":"Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a physical and social world and develop a personal code of survival. In essence, we all become self-styled sages, creating our own book of wisdom based upon our studied observations and practical knowledge gleaned from living and learning. What we quickly discover is that no textbook exist how to conduct our life, because the world has yet to produce a perfect person – an ideal observer – whom is capable of handing down a concrete exemplar of epistemic virtues. We each draw upon the guiding knowledge, theories, and advice available for us in order to explore the paradoxes, ironies, inconsistencies, and the absurdities encountered while living in a supernatural world. We mold our personal collection of information into a practical practicum how to live and die. Each day we define and redefine who we are, determine how we will react today, and chart our quest into an uncertain future.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["code-of-conduct","existential-angst","existentialism","historical","historical-novel","history","identity","know-thyself","legacy","legacy","legends","life-lessons","life-lessons","meaning-of-life","meaningful-life","meaningfulness","memories","memories","memory","memory","personal-history","personal-observation","philosophy-of-life","purpose-driven-life","purpose-of-life","purposeful","purposeful-living","sage-advice","sages","self-awareness","self-determination","self-development","self-identity","self-knowing","self-knowledge","self-realization","stories","storytelling","truth","truth-of-life","uncertainties-in-life","uncertainty","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":142167,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"I'm left with the pages of my life just turning,The story being filled slowly day by day,But the end is approaching and it is out of my hands, Hopefully I will reach my climax,Hopefully I will be able to draw my conclusions,Until then …All I can do is just turn the page.","author":"Morris R. Gates","tags":["hope","meaning","meaningfulness"],"id":164880,"author_id":"Morris+R.+Gates"},{"text":"And if that's the case -- if we are our remembering selves -- then it matters far less how we feel moment to moment with our children. They play rich and crucial roles in our life stories, generating both outsize highs and outsize lows. Without such complexity, we don't feel like we've amounted to much. 'You don't have a good story until something deviates from the expected,' says McAdams. 'And raising children leads to some pretty unexpected happenings.","author":"Jennifer Senior","tags":["children","meaningfulness","memory","parenting"],"id":183264,"author_id":"Jennifer+Senior"},{"text":"Everything has a hidden secret meaning to be revealed or to be sealed.","author":"Auliq Ice","tags":["meaning-of-life","meaningfulness","purpose","purpose-of-life","value","value-of-life"],"id":186270,"author_id":"Auliq+Ice"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}