Mans Search For Meaning Quotes & Sayings

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts. — Charles Caleb Colton

When I was fourteen, I had a massive poster on my wall of a giant pop-art mouth advertising a Swiss exhibition of abstract art. My friends and family mocked my pretention, but I loved that poster and the hope it offered of an exciting world of thought beyond the boundaries of stifling Solihull. But one day the poster fell off the wall and the dog pissed all over it, ruining it for ever, while my mother laughed. That poster is what the Alternative Comedy dream meant to me - the possibility of a better world. And now it is covered in dog's piss. — Stewart Lee

Happiness is when you are not striving for it! — Anuranjita Kumar

As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character. — Clayton M Christensen

When you write down a list of "three good things" that happened that day, your brain will be forced to scan the last 24 hours for potential positives - — Shawn Achor

Psalms 118

25 Save now, I beseech thee, O LORD: O LORD, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.

26 Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD.

27 God is the LORD, which hath shewed us light: bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar.

28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.

29 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. — Anonymous

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy. — Oscar Wilde

The beginning of knowledge is the intention, then listening, then understanding, then action, then preservation, and then spreading it. — Abdullah Ibn Mubarak

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own. — Richard Brookhiser

Money, in itself, is evil. And therefore he who gives money gives evil. — Leo Tolstoy

She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul, in the bosom of the most intimate attention ... She feels in herself that she is becoming some event. — Paul Valery

Call it fate, destiny, call it luck you ended up with me
But some things are meant to be
Coincidence, circumstance
Or something bigger thats just out of our hands
But some things are meant to be — Sammy Kershaw

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life. — Viktor E. Frankl

Philosophy are questions that may never get a answer, religion is an answer that may never be questioned — Anonymous

The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected. — Viktor E. Frankl