"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.  It is dearness only which gives everything its value.  Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods."

-Thomas Paine 

"Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself -- be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.  The more one forgets himself -- by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love -- the more human he is."

Viktor Frankl
Author of Man's Search for Meaning

"Isn't it interesting with regard to the matter of individual

fulfillment, a natural and basic human need, that some fail to 

observe that one of the great advantages of being fulfilled is 

that one does not have to spend all of his or her time thinking about being fulfilled?"

Neal A. Maxwell

BYU Devotional

Family Perspectives, 15 January 1974