Status Updates From A Significant Life: Human M...

'What I seek here is only to offer a way of looking at our lives that allows us the possibility of creating them in such a way that they become meaningful ... Or, to put it another way, I would like to develop a perspective within which to recognize ourselves and our lives so that between our living, our dying, and the increase of the land, something worthwhile will have a chance of taking place.'

'For Aristotle, the good life is not merely a state. One doesn't arrive at the good life. The telos of a human life is not an end result, where one becomes something and then spends the rest of one's life in that condition that one becomes. ... It is, instead, active and engaged with the world. It is an ongoing expression of who one is.'