Mann’s Search for Meaning

Mann’s Search for Meaning

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On the serenity of knowing who you are (audio version)
PAULO COELHO | “To realize one’s Personal Legend is a person’s only real obligation.”
On the virtues of ruined plans (audio version)
JOSEPH CAMPBELL | “We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
On letting go of grudges (audio version)
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE | “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
On chasing your dreams (audio version)
SUE GRAFTON | “If you want to do it, you better get down to it. There is no margin for neglecting your own dreams.”
On the breathtaking unlikeliness of our lives (audio version)
JOHN le CARRÉ | “Please take comfort from this: I had an amazing life, against the odds.”
On eternity (audio version)
MARY OLIVER | “Something is wrong, I know it, if I don’t keep my attention on eternity.”
On staying heartened (audio version)
IRMA S. ROMBAUER | “Do not be discouraged.”
On love (audio version)
ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPÉRY | “When you look up at the stars at night, since I’ll be living on one of them, since I’ll be laughing on one of them, for you…
On feeling (audio version)
RAY BRADBURY | “You must never think at the typewriter. You must feel.”
On staying young forever (audio version)
MAURICE SENDAK | “I promise! I swear! I won’t ever turn ten!”
On limitation (audio version)
MICHEL de MONTAIGNE | “The trumpet’s voice rings out clearer and stronger for being forced through a narrow tube.”
On being a hero (audio version)
JOHN BARTH | “Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.”
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