Meaning comes from the connectedness we feel to others - other human beings, the natural world, and the realm of the sacred.  These are the things that we are deeply, deeply missing in our world.

Dr. Iain McGilchrist 

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.  What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.

Jane Goodall. 

Ash Wednesday if full of joy… The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.  God is all our joy and in [God] our dust can become splendor.

-Thomas Merton.