Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the
answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt.
Meaning is something you build into your life. You build
it out of your own past, out of your affections and
loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is
passed on to you, out of your own talent 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
there. You are the only one who can put them together
into that 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 or failure is of less account.
John Gardner
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