“For you came into existence not when you chose, but when the world had need of you." I stumbled upon this quote from the Stoic philosopher Epictetus. It is the second half of the sentence that struck ...

Life as a journey; life as a quest; life as a purpose; life as… life? We have different ways of trying to make sense of what passing through time means—this doing-what-we-do within this box of years.

We have a meaning crisis in our society that is particularly acute for people younger than 35. Below, Arthur Brooks shares ...

When you look back on your life’s story, what will you see? Will it be a narrative of bold choices and intentional living or one of drifting through the years? This question was posed to me by a close ...