To some, beautiful can mean a field with flowers, birds, trees, green grass and a clear blue sky, and to others, beautiful means destruction, fire, guns, dusty view and a gray sky

...Life is what you make of it, there is no such thing as a "Common" most important thing in life, but whatever you have out of your hard effort and treasure it. Whatever it friends to items you put effort into or for, working hard on to something you love doing is one of life worth living for. I haven't found my meaning to live but that the beauty of living.

[About Susan Sontag] Her quest for meaning, for significance was endless. She described life more as a war than an adventure. Susan thrived best in the presence of an adversary. ... You learned that you were not her adversary if she'd chosen you as a friend. She taught me as a friend the strength of dealing with adversity. Her last adversary was the struggle with death itself.

The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

A woman can never be beautiful until she realizes beauty as a force!