In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
Money's fine if it enables you to enjoy your life and to be useful to other people. But as something that is a means to an end, no, it's useless.
I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.
We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.
I am, of course, aware that the ultimate solution is the ownership and control of the means of life by the whole of the people; but we are not at that stage of development as yet.
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.
To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.
Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another.
In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.
It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else.
A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.
Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else.
