Quote of the day by Mieko Kamiya, mother of ikigai: 'We did not create the morning... The meaning of life is like the morning'

Mieko Kamiya, known as the mother of ikigai, wrote the 1966 book 'Ikigai-ni-tsuite' on the meaning of life.

She was a psychiatrist who treated leprosy patients at Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium in Japan.

Kamiya's quote compares the meaning of life to the morning: it is discovered, not created.

Her work emphasized finding purpose even when everything has been taken away.