Meaning proverbs

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◆ A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

- Italo Calvino99

◆ Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

- Jess C. Scott99

◆ Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

- Maya Angelou99

◆ Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

- Thomas Merton99

◆ Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature — is sin! And notice that all this means that the foundation of belief and all reflection on its origin is likewise excluded as sinful. What is wanted are blindness and intoxication and an eternal song over the waves in which reason has drowned.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

- Orson Welles99

◆ The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

- W. Somerset Maugham99

◆ An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

- Viktor E. Frankl99

◆ I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

- Emily Dickinson99

◆ If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.

- Andy Rooney99

◆ I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

- Hermann Hesse99

◆ I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.

- Richard P. Feynman99

◆ To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

- Bill Watterson99