Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.... What frustrates us and robs our lives of joy is this absence of meaning.... Does our being alive matter?

When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters (ed. Pan Macmillan, 2011) - ISBN: 9780330532235