The crucial question one comes back to is the examination without that experience is meaningless. And I think it's true that society is becoming more and more passive less and less fired up with enthusiasm in many spheres.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell and bursts into a thousand meanings.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

The right to a quality education is I believe the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right the values of liberty justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind.