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“Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies.Elves are glamorous. They project glamour.Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment.Elves are terrific. They beget terror.The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.No one ever said elves are nice.Elves are bad.”
Terry Pratchett
“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”
Henry Miller
“If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals”
Plato
“When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson”
Will Rogers
“Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Life has no meaning a priori . Before you come alive, life is nothing; it’s up to you to give it a meaning and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.”
Viktor Frankl
“That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.”
Moliere
“Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.”
Alan Watts
“Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.”
Chriswell Freeman
