Quotes of Umberto Eco

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I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

- Umberto Eco

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“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Do the best, give the best and leave the rest to run after you! ”

- Garima Yonzon

“ The purpose of life is to love, the purpose of love is to live. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys. ”

- Hermann J. Steinherr

“ When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth. ”

- Jodi Picoult

“ Love overcomes bitterness, overpowers sorrow, overwhelms anger, and overthrows hatred. Medicine heals the body, faith heals the heart, wisdom heals the mind, and love heals the soul. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process. ”

- Harold Geneen

“ When love is pursued, fear is surrendered, and you gain the freedom to worship in spirit and in truth. ”

- Deborah Brodie

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If you listen more, you will judge less; and when you judge less, you will appreciate differences; and you will be more happy. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ The only shortcut I have found to life is to sharpen my teeth on the bones of the wise. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ Tomorrow I will run more courageously, more outrageously. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ”

- Dalai Lama

“ Sometimes the hardest one to see . . .is the one standing right before you. ”

- Lenora Porch

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ”

- Haruki Murakami

“ Live every day like it’s your last. ”

- Unknown

“ True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the wellbeing of one's companion. ”

- Gordon B. Hinckley