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The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.
Those who think they 'know' from the beginning will never in fact come to know anything.
Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.
Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.
If you really want to kill morale, have layoffs every two months for the next two years.
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.
I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story.
Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
Clothes are unique sculptures, dependent on a supporting human form and created to move.
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
Those who are absent, by its means become present; it [mail] is the consolation of life.
There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.
To be in Christ -that is redemption; but for Christ to be in you-that is sanctification.
I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton.
Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.
There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.
I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.
The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.
The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.
Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.
I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.
We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.
I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.
There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being.
Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.
Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
Life's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.
People will pay me to feel the passion and energy I breathe into my career and creations.
I live my life free of compromise, and step into the shadows without complaint or regret.
Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary.
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
In some way there is no real life. It's always the story of your life that you're living.