Portable Wisdom

A Meaningful Life

As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.

Yuval Noah Harari, 2015

From the book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

© 2015 Yuval Noah Harari

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