If life drags on, the will gets run down. It will take a glorious holiday, or something like it, to remind us of wider meanings. Then suddenly we are enjoying everything more: eating, reading, walking, listening to music. The meaning sharpens the appetite for life — that is, the will to live. And the deeper my sense of the meanfulingness of the world, the fiercer and more persistent my will. Increased effort of will leads in turn to increased sense of meaning.
— William McNamara, Christian Mysticism