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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You're done. It doesn't necessarily mean that you want to have lunch with the person. If you keep hitting back, you stay trapped in the nightmare... Anne Lamott
What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life. Albert Einstein
God sent Jesus to join the human experience, which means to make a lot of mistakes. Jesus didn't arrive here knowing how to walk. He had fingers and toes, confusion, sexual feelings, crazy human internal processes. He had the same prejudices as the rest of his tribe: he had to learn that the Canaanite woman was a person. He had to suffer the hardships and tedium and setbacks of being a regular person. If he hadn't the incarnation would mean nothing. Anne Lamott
Sherman Alexie quote: "Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want..."
Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play. Sherman Alexie
Bob Dylan quote: "Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes..."
Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean. Bob Dylan
I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name. Lois McMaster Bujold
Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says than what his commentators think he means? W. Somerset Maugham
Jane Austen quote: "What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next...."
What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter. Jane Austen
According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired."Meaning what?"Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation. Haruki Murakami
The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have. Orson Scott Card
Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way—I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it. J. D. Salinger
[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death. C. S. Lewis
Tom Robbins quote: "Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just..."
Just because you're naked doesn't mean you're sexy. Just because you're cynical doesn't mean you're cool. Tom Robbins
If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal. John F. Kennedy
I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. Albert Camus

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