| Meaning
is not something you stumble across, like the
answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure
hunt. Meaning is something you build into your
life. You build it out of your own past, out
of your affections & loyalties, of the experience
of humankind as it is passed on to you, out
of your own talent & understanding, out
of the things & people you love, out of
the values for which you are willing to sacrifice
something.
The ingredients are there. You are the only
one who can put them together into that pattern
that will be your life. Let it be a life that
has dignity & meaning for you. If it does,
then the particular balance of success or failure
is of less account.
John Gardner
This quest for attaining some form of meaning,
be it for a person, place or thing, goes on
forever till it reaches it final term. In the
context of business, a case in point being the
Prime. |
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