In Search for Meaning Quotes

“Despite their illusive nature, twilight never fails to provide a magical quality to the day—a transitional space between day and night, light and dark, head and heart...”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Sunshine and rain make a rainbow. The coming together of pleasure and pain is what gives life its colour, texture, and flavour.

Each experience accumulates to compose a grand work of art, of which we ourselves are the artists.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“We do not need more things to be happy—
just some gratitude would do.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Graffiti is the art of the people. It is a language without clear official status, but whose instinctive quality testifies to the honesty of human experience and the true nobility of art.

Often marked with a sense of eroticism and violence, the wall conserves something pure and sacred about the human story.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“What miraculous organs our eyes are!

They allow us to see colours, feel textures, look into the eyes of a loved one, take pleasure in the sense of sight, and perceive things from the heart.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Wherever I go, I search for meaning.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“We are larger than the sum of our parts, and we possess the potential for greatness of a magnitude inconceivable to our conventional ways of thinking.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Ernest Hemingway was right—there is a crack in everything, and that is how the light gets in.

Let warmth touch your wound; let your pain cleanse you in all its entirety.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Humankind, with all its symbolic capability, seems to always have associated light and height with a higher power—something numinous and holy.

Could it be that deep down inside, we all know that we are part of something far greater than ourselves?”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“There was something sacred about the light that flooded inside this abandoned edifice, as if washing away all the collective pain, misery, and bad history that ever happened in this place, giving it a chance to be something new.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Sometimes my pictures do not describe grand places or things, and sometimes they are not grand pictures; but they mean something to me —like this abandoned corner at the back of a church.

She called to me that she was dying, crumbling down, and only some appreciation could save her.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“When we look up to the sky, we see distant spatial objects as small; has it ever crossed your mind that this is also how we may be perceived from other viewpoints in the multiverse?

Looking up to the sky, we get to experience our own scale, our insignificance in the face of the grand forces of nature and their indifference towards our personal conditions. Yet, strangely, this experience of insignificance is not that of diminishment; but of peace, liberation, and relief.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“A moment is indeed all one could ever ask for from perfection; but if you live fully and love with all your heart and soul, it is worth everything—and one moment is enough.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“The night wakes up the senses;
it wakes up the Soul.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Night-time moves us in mysterious ways. Darkness brings to light things that we would not otherwise notice in daylight.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Life is full of simple pleasures;
if one does not know how to enjoy them,
one would easily miss out on it.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“The way upstream may not be easy,
for we have strayed far.

But one is never too lost
to rediscover the Path.

Like pigeons, we can always find
our way back home.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“After a long wandering of existence,
with all its joys and pains,
perhaps one decides to go home.

And it is in that moment that one
finally asks the right question:
What is the Way home?”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Our thoughts and emotions are like a train—
we have a choice whether or not to jump on it.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Love is indeed a prevailing driving force for many human actions.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“In every language, there is a word for love. Love is undeniably a universal language and experience.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“The scene was dreamy, surreal, and picturesquely still, exhibiting the kind of beauty that is subtle and not calling for attention, but nonetheless there for anyone who is present enough to see it.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“There are times when life seems like a painting, and walking forward feels like entering it.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“The world is composed of seemingly random events that constitute a harmonious whole.

Hans Christian Andersen said it best: ‘Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Ambiguity is one of the most powerful qualities of photography as an art form—a photograph describes, but does not tell.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Many a time we seek drama in our surroundings to spark up our daily life. However, reality is not a fairy story, and is often anti-climatic. But there’s the comedy!”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“Nature always has its way of showing its power and might. Majestic, full of life, and passionate; yet graceful, calm, and not forceful.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“From up there, we all look the same. However, amidst this truth of unity, human beings seem to be perpetually on the quest for a solid unchanging identity. Is it important to distinguish oneself from the rest? What does one’s sense of Self mean in the universal scheme of things?”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“The phenomenon of light is such an amazing thing to experience.

Oftentimes, we forget to appreciate how the laws of nature—including those manifested in our bodily existence—work so wonderfully.”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning

“To what extent do we attach meaning to our experience of the world based on language?”
― Felisa Tan, In Search for Meaning