Meaning

“Through both material and spiritual prosperity, humankind should be able to achieve a peaceful and happy life.”

“Man is, in his actions and practice, as well as in his fictions, essentially a story-telling animal.”

“文以载道，儒者无不能言之。”

“To make of life one harmonious whole, to realise the invisible, to anticipate the transfiguring majesty of the Divine Presence, is all that is worth living for.”

“The most beautiful statement that I ever heard about dying was, ‘It is finished.’”

“Life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.”

“Literature begins with that “why,” even if we were to answer that question over and over with an ordinary “I don’t know.””

“I nisu važni puni stadioni, već ako tvoja jedna pisma napuni samo jedno srce, to je to, to je cila misija.”

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”

“When you do that let me tell you what I know for sure. That’s when your story gets really good.”

“Communities don't need to be big in following; they need to be rich in substance.”

“I credit poetry, in other words, both for being itself and for being a help.”

“It was really driven by a great wish to search for truth as a ground for “peace of mind and a meaningful existence.””

“That means I did something right as a person, which is ultimately the most important thing.”

“Jesus Christ alone can fill this empty space, because he is the fulfillment both of pagan human longing and of Jewish hopeful faith.”

“لستُ أهوى القراءةَ لأكتبَ، ولا أهوى القراءةَ لأزدادَ عُمُرًا في تقديرِ الحسابِ، وإنما أهوى القراءةَ؛ لأنَّ عندي حياةً واحدةً في هذه الدنيا وحياةً واحدةً لا تكفيني.”

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

“But it’s also important to remember that it will do us little good to wire the world if we short-circuit our souls.”