You don't live in a world all alone. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live. And above all, remember that the meaning of life is to build a life as if it were a work of art. A man can sit for hours before an aquarium and stare into it as into the flames of an open fire or the rushing waters of a torrent. All conscious thought is happily lost in this state of apparent vacancy, and yet, in these hours of idleness, one learns the essential truth about the macrocosm and the microcosm.
Youth see too far to see how near it is to seeing farther.
And what is required is the note of conviction and contagion of counsel that will turn anarchy into meaning, into order. Two men were walking along a crowded sidewalk in a downtown business area. But the other could not hear. He asked his companion how he could detect the sound of a cricket amidst the din of people and traffic. The first man, who was a zoologist, had trained himself to listen to the voices of nature, but he did not explain.