#meaning_of_life

Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie. ↗

— Robert McKee

#choice #deus-ex-machina #emotion #lies #meaning-of-life

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#meaning-of-life #life

Love is seeking the good and being the good. ↗

— Erica Goros

#christianity #inspiration #inspirational #life #meaning-of-life

Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't pain, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#dream #dreams #meaning-of-life #meant-to-be #resistance

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered. ↗

— Stephen King

#life

Man is able to snatch everything except one thing, the last of human freedoms: the choice of an attitude under any given set of circumstances to determine his own path. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#choices-and-consequences #freedom #meaning-of-life #attitude

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#being #concerned #consists #earnestly #faith

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#alive #being #believe #experience #i

Here is the way life is: whether we live to be 30 or 90, we all have a death sentence hanging over us. As Garfield says, "What's important in our lives is that we make the best of this, that we immerse fully in love. ↗

— Jumana Farouky

#time-magazine #death

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#day to day #differs #general #given #hour