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“If we find ourselves missing the art of living, we must suffer from a lack of fulfillment, joy, and meaning in life. By opening the closets of our minds, igniting the wicks of our curiosity, and unlocking the abandoned doors to our dormant passion, we revive an inspired and creative way of life. ("Waiting for Eureka")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuumâ€� feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.”
― Victor Frankl

“Needing to find reasons to live had forced me to build a life worth living.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“Why do they make things so complicated?"
"So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value."
"It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Our fellow men are black magicians. And whoever is with them
is a black magician on the spot. Think for a moment, can you
deviate from the path that your fellow men have lined up for you?
And if you remain with them, your thoughts and your actions are
fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery. The warrior, on the
other hand, is free from all that. Freedom is expensive, but the
price is not impossible to pay. So, fear your captors, your
masters. Don't waste your time and your power fearing freedom.”
― Carlos Castenada

“You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil.”
― Kris Vallotton

“Listen! I know it's not right to talk. Better to set an example, better to just start - I have already started - and - and can one really be unhappy? Oh, what do my grief and my misfortune matter if I have the strength to be happy? You know, I don't understand how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it! Or to speak with a man and not be happy in loving him? Oh, it's just that I can't express it - and yet there are so many things at every stop so beautiful that even the most desolate of men find them beautiful. Look at a child, look at Go's sunrise, look at the grass, how it grows, look into eyes that look at you and love you -”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“A single thought of her reminds me what it's like to feel alive and once again to have deep meaning in my life; A simple vision of her smile makes me feel special.”
― R.J. Intindola

“The life of a human has meaning only and only if that life comes to the aid of others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

“Wealth can procure many things in this world, but Elden was the first person in my life to give real meaning to the things it cannot buy.”
― Micheline Ryckman, The Maiden Ship

“Sometimes it's not what you do differently it's what you do consistently.

I approached solving my life’s problems from many different angles. I used to try to be perfect, not in the literal sense, but coasting right below in that realistic level of high performance. That was my desire. It did not happen though, yet that desire did not die. Ironically, as I fell into deeper adversity, it grew. As I dug for China, I knew the comeback would make the suffering worth it. It’s like what Viktor E. Frankl wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning, “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.â€� I felt the meaning for my self imposed suffering was the honorable character I would later possess; it had to be.”
― Dexter A. Daniels, Consistent, Not Different: Why We Stray from the Path and Reasons to Return

“Jan Hindman knows all too well that people who have lied for decades about their offending would lie to her about being victimized as a child, so she compared the reports of abuse by child molesters who were not being polygraphed on their answers with a later group who was informed that they would have to take a polygraph after the interview. The group that was being polygraphed was also given immunity from prosecution for crimes previously unknown in order to take away one of the many reasons that offenders lie.[103]

The study is not about how good the polygraph is � although it appears to be highly accurate[104] and better than people are at detecting deception in any case. Rather, this study is about how good the offenders thought the polygraph was because the answers of the group who was going to take the polygraph turned out to be very different from the group who was going to take the polygraph turned out very different from the group who wasn't going.

In a series of three studies, the offenders who claimed they were abused as a child were 67 percent, 65 percent, and 61 percent without the threat of a polygraph. With polygraph (and conditional immunity), the offenders who claimed they were abused as children were 29 percent, 32 percent, and 30 percent, respectively. The polygraph groups reported approximately half the amount of victimization as children as the nonpolygraph groups did.

Nonetheless, the notion that most offenders were victims has spread throughout the field of sexual abuse and is strangely comforting for most professionals. For one thing, it gives meaning to the behavior of offenders and at the same time allows people to feel badly for them. I remember a cartoon in which a man is lying in a gutter, badly beaten. Two social workers stand over him, and one says to the other, "The man who did this really needs help." If offenders are just victims, then no one has to face the reality of malevolence, the fact that there are people out there who prey on other for reasons we simply don't understand.”
― Anna C. Salter, Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, and Other Sex Offenders

“Life has no meaning. You give meaning to everything. Your beliefs influence the meanings you give. Your judgment about situations is based on the beliefs you hold.”
― Hina Hashmi

“Remembering—the good others have done, the evil others have done, and one’s moral obligations—is an indispensable aspect of a good and meaningful life.”
― Dennis Prager, The Rational Bible: Exodus

“Don't teach, live your life as a living teaching for all humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Homo: A Brief History of Consciousness

“Simpler the words, the more meaningful they are.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“There is no GPS to navigate
the path to our truth
only an internal compass

Yet we are misrouted
over golden bridges to shopping malls
built to deliver promises of enough
and keep our dreams small

Band-aids over amputated limbs
we close our eyes and pray
that buying instead of being
will fill the emptiness away”
― Valentina Quarta, The Purpose Ladder

“Search and meditate into love. Love is the greatest experiment in life, and those who have never experimented with love in their lives, will never know what life really is. Life without love becomes meaningless.  Life with love creates a deep joy and meaning.  Those who know love are bound to know God. 
Love is the highest value in life.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, The Call of the Heart 

“The heart is the source of love, truth and wisdom. The whole education system is based on one strategy, which is to teach
people how to ignore the heart. It condemns the heart, it condemns feelings and it ppreciates thinking and logic.
Love is true wisdom. Logic is empty compared to the heart. It has no soul in it. It is only love that can fulfill one. It is only love  that can give real meaning to your life. It is only love that can give you authentic growth.
To move from the head to the heart is wisdom. That is the journey  of a meditator.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace

“It is only through meditation that life becomes meaningful. Without meditation life is meaningless. One only vegetates, but one does not really live. One hopes to live, but one goes on postponing life for tomorrow. But tomorrow never comes.
You can see the meaninglessness in the face of people. People are trying to create some meaning in their life. You know that this meaning is your own creation, and deep down you remain empty and hollow.
That is why people keep themselves busy and occupied with every kind of activity. They are afraid that if they are not constantly
occupied they have to face their own emptiness and meaninglessness.
And that is frightening, so they never look within themselves. The whole day they are occupied.
Meditation means facing your own inner emptiness. It hurts in the beginning, but you will realize that it is just a curtain. The darkness is only the surface, and at the center of it is light. And once you have experienced your own inner light, your own being, your own eternity, the meaninglessness disappears.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Man is Part of the Whole: Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Compassion, Freedom and Grace

“Awareness is the highway to meaning.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets