Mann’s Search for Meaning

Mann’s Search for Meaning

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On love, grief, and joy
C.S. LEWIS | “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.”
On the virtue of not knowing
GEORGE SAUNDERS | “Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused.”
On having faith in the ultimately benign
BEATRIX POTTER | “Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”
On the serenity of knowing who you are
PAULO COELHO | “To realize one’s Personal Legend is a person’s only real obligation.”
On the virtues of ruined plans
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
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE | “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
On chasing your dreams
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
JOHN le CARRÉ | “Please take comfort from this: I had an amazing life, against the odds.”
On eternity
MARY OLIVER | “Something is wrong, I know it, if I don’t keep my attention on eternity.”
On staying heartened
IRMA S. ROMBAUER | “Do not be discouraged.”
On love
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
RAY BRADBURY | “You must never think at the typewriter. You must feel.”
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