You need to put things in perspective. So much of your life lies ahead! You need to know how good it can be. You need to take the best of what you’ve learned from the old, and bring it to the beautiful days of a new journey.

Life’s new beginnings happen for very special reasons. When it’s time to move on, remember that it really is okay. Because when a new beginning unfolds in the story of your life, you go such a long way toward making the dreams of your tomorrows come true.

The Meaning of Life...
as told by a foremost Psychiatrist and Holocaust Survivor

"The meaning of life differs from man to man and from day to day... Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Let me recall that which was perhaps the deepest experience I had in the concentration camp. The odds of surviving the camp were no more than 1-in-28... it seemed as if nothing and no one would survive me... so I found myself confronted with the question whether under such circumstances my life was void of meaning. It seemed to me that I would die in the near future... in this critical situation,, however, my concern was different from that of most of my comrades. Their question was "Will we survive the camp? For if not, all this suffering has no meaning." The question which beset me was, "Has all this suffering, this dying around us, a meaning? For if not, then ultimately there is no meaning to survival; for a life whose meaning depends upon such a happenstance - as whether one escapes or not - ultimately would not be worth living at all."

Life’s Transitions: "Those things which seem to take meaning away from human life include not only suffering but dying as well... but those things in no way make it meaningless... for everything hinges upon our realizing the possibilities and making choices... a choice which will be condemned to nonbeing or which will be actualized... an "immortal footprint in the sands of time."

For instance a pessimist may be a man who with fear and sadness, tears a sheet each day off his wall calendar and notices it growing thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively removes each succeeding leaf from the calendar, jots down a few diary notes on the back, and files it neatly with its predecessors. He can then reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set down in these notes, on all the life he has actively lived to the fullest. What does it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons does he have to envy a young person? "No thank you," he will think. "Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy."

"The meaning of life (may) always change, but it never ceases to be... we can discover this meaning of life in three different ways: (1) by creating a work or doing a deed - by acting on our beliefs and needs; (2) by experiencing something like goodness, truth, beauty or nature, or someone and in his/her own uniqueness by loving him or her; and (3) by the attitude we take toward unavoidable suffering... by striving to transform a personal tragedy into a human achievement.