“It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important th…”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.”— Yukio Mishima, amazon.com
“Is happiness something that can be learnt, or acquired by habituation, or cultivated in some other way?”— Aristotle, amazon.com
“I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I’m afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.”— Andy Warhol, goodreads.com
“Sometimes it was hard to express how much you loved someone. You said the words, but you could never quite capture the depth of it. You could never quite hold someone tightly enough.”— Diane Chamberlain, amazon.com
“It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.”— Salvador Dalí, goodreads.com
“Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.”— Clifford Geertz, hypergeertz.jku.at
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”— Joseph Campbell, amazon.com
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.”— Joseph Campbell, amazon.com
“Everyone is always going through tough things, the irony in it is that everyone thinks what they’re going through is just as hard as what you are. Life isn’t about surviving this, it’s about understanding this.”— Nicholas Sparks, goodreads.com
“The universe is fully known because it is ignored. Enlightenment comes when you don’t care.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.”— Khaled Hosseini, denverpost.com
“I am the most stressed out I have ever been, but the happiest I could ever hope, and it is so good to know that those things are not mutually exclusive.”— Sabrina Cruz, youtube.com
“Consider the possibility that we build this false dichotomy around stress and happiness. That happiness exists if and only if there is no stress. But I would argue that for most of my life, the biggest hindrance to my happiness was a lack of stress. Good stress, not social anxiety or a crippling fea…”— Sabrina Cruz, youtube.com