Jonas Salk Quotes

You must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything you discovered on the path.

When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.

It’s no longer about the Lost Boys. They keep trying to make their way out, then they meet other people and empathize with them. It’s a story that a lot of people are going to discover their purpose from. When someone doesn’t know their purpose, they get lost.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

My friends don't understand, whether it's belonging to a country club or playing golf, or whatever a vacation is, that should make you happy. And it's like, "No, happiness is much deeper." I think people have to struggle to find things that give them purpose, the real meaning. Why am I alive? Why did God bless me with these skills or these resources? What am I to do with them? If God just lets some person be very fortunate, let's say financially, it's kind of a funny God.

I've always said that people are desperate to find meaning in their lives.

He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called “normal” people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land; he does not include the shipwrecked people who arrive by devious lonely routes, and the many who dwell in the land in the beginning.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And then people decide how they're going to interpret that and what it means to them.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

The problem for us is less to discover the way it really is than to see the meaning of the way.

Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

Everything means something.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

I am a socialist. However, I have to add that what I understand by socialism is exactly the opposite of what many people, or most people, today mean by socialism.

I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness." I said: "Kaz, everyone is used to the word emptiness for shunyata. This might not sit well with people. He said: "Translator's prerogative!" Then he added, "One cannot assume we know what they meant...." I agreed.

The point is, it didn’t really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important.

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

All things show up in the world according to the purposes we ascribe to them.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.

A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.