Meaning is not something that you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your own life. You build it out of your own past, out of your own affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed onto you, out of your own talents and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something. The ingredients are all there. You are the only one who can put them together in the pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success and failure is of less account.
- Ways of Winners' PROGRAMME MANUAL
hmm...food for thought indeed..nice
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@Peru - Food for thought it surely is... but for a change it moves beyond thought to an area where the brain and the heart coincide. And that's where meaning is... In the calmness within the turbulence. I'm still seeking...
ReplyDelete@Naina - I wish i could write something as perfect as that... I wish... but yeah it makes a whole lot of sense and has a lot of 'meaning' as we'd say it! :)
Failure is savage and beautiful - just like success and life
@ Anuj
ReplyDelete'Failure is savage and beautiful - just like success and life': ur a different person now, clearly.