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Imagine being told you'll never feel sunshine on your skin ever again. That's what life is like without her.

Charity was what she was, a most striking, vivid, headstrong, exasperating, often infuriating young woman.

To say that meaning must be found is the equivalent to say that meaning is something to discover rather than to invent.

And in spite of our belief in the potential humanness of man we must not close our eyes to the fact that humane humans are, and probably will always remain, a minority.

As we see Maslow's motivation there does not suffice here for what it is needed is not so much the distinction between higher and lower needs but rather an answer to the question of whether the individual goals are mere means or meanings.

Normally, however, the eye doesn't see anything of itself. Equally, by virtue of the self-transcendent quality of the human reality, the humanness of man is most tangible when he forgets himself and overlooks himself.

Therefore man is characterized by his search for meaning, rather than his search for himself. The more he forgets himself, giving himself to a cause or another person, the more human he is. And the more he is immersed and absorbed in something or someone other than himself, the more he really becomes himself.

Neurosis seems to be the toll that a crippled relationship to God takes on man.

Religion is the universal compulsive neurosis of mankind. - Freud

Chapter 3
And although they don't expect the government to solve all their problems, they do know deep in their bones that with just a slight change in priorities, government could help.

Chapter 3
...they get sick. They expect that their kids should be able to get a good education, one that prepares them for this new economy, and they should be able to afford college if they've put in the effort. They want to be safe from criminals or terrorists. And they figure that after a lifetime of work they should be able to retire with dignity and respect. That's about it. That's not a lot. And although...

Chapter 3
Here's the thing, I would say, most people, wherever they're from, whatever they look like, are looking for the same thing. They're not trying to get filthy rich. They don't expect someone else to do what they can do for themselves. But they do expect that if they're willing to work, they should be able to find a job that supports a family. They expect that they shouldn't go bankrupt just because..

My own willingness to take up arms to prevent another 9/11. I'm not opposed to all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. I went on to argue that Saddam Hussein posed no imminent threat to the United States or its neighbors and that even a successful war against Iraq would require a US occupation of undetermined length, undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences.

Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.

What if there's an invisible tipping point somewhere along the way when one becomes three becomes infinite, when there are so many of you inside that circle that you become hydra-headed, invincible?

She thought survival was a selfish thing, a circle drawn tight around your heart. She thought the more people you let inside that circle the more ways the world had to hurt you, the more ways you could fail them and be failed in turn. But what if it's the opposite, and there are more people to catch you when you fall? What if there's an invisible tipping point somewhere along the way when one becomes three becomes...

Bella informs her that this is the precise reason why women's dresses no longer have pockets, to show they bear no witch-ways or ill intentions, and Juniper responds that she has both, thank you very damn much.

The old lady eyed her sternly, like a teacher faced with a child who stubbornly refuses to understand and whom she's beginning to suspect may not be worth teaching.