But whatever indefinable thing those children do offer (joy, love, purpose) resists quantification.
Which opens up our lives--and our hearts--for the intangible gifts of love, purpose and joy.
This light is our natural state of being and we must return to our point of origin if we wish to live with love, purpose and meaning.
A succession of love stories in reverse, the effect is a kind of emotional detective story - the clues are all there in the opening sections: a lost ring, a lost pair of pyjamas, symbols of the greater losses of passion, purpose and love.
Her life was full of hope, love and purpose, and she will be greatly missed by all who knew her.
He was a man defined by the bullied boy, looking for love and purpose and failing to find it.
The boy's great love and purpose is a mysterious automaton, the only legacy of his father, who was killed in a museum fire.
At 9 30 p.m., Gotham Comedy Club, 208 West 23rd Street, Chelsea, (212) 367-9000, gothamcomedyclub.com; $15. (Angelo) 'It's Complicated' (Tuesday) Fresh off "Best Week Ever," the sharp, relatable Amanda Seales presents a new one-woman musical comedy show about finding love and purpose.
After a troubled childhood in Tanzania, Manda has found companionship, love and purpose among the twitchers of Maidenhead, but happy days among semi-palmate sandpipers end abruptly when her long-term boyfriend flies off in pursuit of an Essex girl and she herself is threatened by a binocular-wielding stalker.
The John Templeton Foundation, based in West Conshohocken, Pa., was established in 1987 to administer the prize and promote "projects to apply scientific methodology to the study of religious subjects," with room for theoretical physics; evolutionary biology; cognitive science; and research into love, human purpose and the nature and origin of religious beliefs.
Finally, having a child is also a major spur to quitting or cutting back dramatically: the demands of a baby and the love and purpose that parenting engenders tend to work against a lifestyle of frequent intoxication, to say the least.
