What makes a life? More than what we say; more, even, than what we do. A life is also what we love, and what we believe in.
“The finished product you see on the peaks is the end result of the resurrection in the valley.”
― Crushing: God Turns Pressure into Power
― Crushing: God Turns Pressure into Power
“Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
― The Fellowship of the Ring
“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one’s life.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
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