Mean Quotes (page 190)

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• happy
• dream
• son

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die? Tim Burton

• life
• meanings
• meanness

The meaning of life is that it stops. Franz Kafka

• different
• unhappy
• change

No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy. Paulo Coelho

• life
• giving up
• motivational

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things. Paulo Coelho

• trust
• fall
• trust yourself

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will?? Marilyn Monroe

• evening
• nice
• great

After the first glass of vodkayou can accept just about anythingof life even your own mysteriousnessyou think it is nice that a boxof matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Swedenfor they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there? Frank O'Hara

• together
• short
• words

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened... Mark Twain

• depression
• kindness
• thinking

It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious. Meg Cabot

• best
• end
• knowingly

I do the very best I know how-the very best I can; and mean to keep doing so until the end. Abraham Lincoln

• giving
• responsibility
• inspirational

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point Richard Dawkins

• die
• literature
• philosophy

If people lived forever—if they never got any older—if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy—do you think they’d bother to think hard about things, the way were doing now? I mean, we think about its everything, more or less—philosophy, psychology, logic. Religion. Literature. I kinda think, if there were no such t hing as death, the complicated thoughts and ideas like that would never come into the world. Haruki Murakami

• reasonably
• pointing
• meanings

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point. Sue Grafton

• hand
• love
• manly

Only--but this is rare--When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glare. Of the interminable hours, Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear, When our world-deafen'd ear. Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd--A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know. A man becomes aware of... Matthew Arnold

• time
• people
• best

When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his... Gilbert K. Chesterton

• great
• him
• god

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first. Charles Spurgeon