It gives meaning and value to your life and also helps you have a better understanding of who you are and where you came from.

The meaning of life is life.

Wahrscheinlich kann man vom Nichtwollen seelisch nicht leben; eine Sache nicht tun wollen, das ist auf Dauer kein Lebensinhalt.

The president is asserting an inherent constitutional authority in 'wartime' that allows him to ignore the plain meaning of the FISA law. How it is ultimately resolved will help define the limits of presidential power.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

For days and weeks on end one racks one's brains to no avail, and, if asked, one could not say whether one goes on writing purely out of habit, or a craving for admiration, or because one knows not how to do anything other, or out of sheer wonderment, despair or outrage, any more than one could say whether writing renders one more perceptive or more insane. Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life?