Reflections
“Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.”
~ Viktor E. Frankl, 1905-1997, Man’s Search for Meaning
“Some people say we’re just an accident, just a chance collocation of molecules and nothing means anything” Frasier Crane, “Boy, that’s a cheerful thought,” Woody.
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting; it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.
~ Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, Poet, Writer
Do you not see how they are thrown to wild beasts to make them deny the Lord, and yet they are not conquered? Do you not see that as more of them are punished, the more others increase? These things do not look like human works; they are the power of God, they are proofs of his presence.
~ Letter to Diognetus 7:7–9