“The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing”

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

Nothing is likely to help a person overcome or endure troubles than the consciousness of having a task in life.

Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining.

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

Man’s inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.

Spiritual freedom makes life meaningful and purposeful.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.

I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not.

Before I was cast on The Surreal Life my knowledge of Christopher Knight was pretty much he was on.

To fail and succeed and flourish and fly.

The Brady Bunch and I hated The Brady Bunch.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

You have no idea how many storms she’s been through to grow and flourish in the way she is now.

We are gardens. We flourish and grow. Despite the rain, despite the snow.

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.