“As a cardiologist, I see the heart not just as a physical organ but as the center of our emotions, the seat of our soul, and the essence of our humanity. Healing and health transcend the physical to encompass habits of the mind and qualities of the spirit.”
Source: Just One Heart: A Cardiologist’s Guide to Healing, Health, and Happiness
“Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can’t send any other way can be heard.”
Source: The Journal Keeper: A Memoir
“Silence is the language of the cosmos. From the smallest stone to the sun itself, they all communicate through silence, greatly rich with meaning and deep, very deep. In order to understand it, we need to have a special mind.”
Source: Wall of Colours and Other Stories
“Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order o make sense of the world around us?”
“Silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
Source: The Notebook
“There was only greed for living and dread, and out of dread, out of stupid childish dread of the cold, of loneliness, of death, two people fled to one another, kissed, embraced, rubbed cheek to cheek, put leg to leg, cast new human beings into the world. That was how it was.”
Source: Klingsors letzter Sommer
“For one scant day he had loved himself, felt himself to be unified and whole, not split into hostile parts; he had loved himself and the world and God in himself, and everywhere he went he had met nothing but love, approval, and joy.”
Source: Klingsors letzter Sommer
“Je croyais que la vie était comme un livre, on l'ouvrait à la première page, on passait à la deuxième, on continuait et on arrivait bientôt à la dernière, mais la vie n'a rien à voir avec ce que racontent les livres. Les lettres s'enchaînent, il y a des numéros de page, mais cela n'a ni queue ni tête. Même au-delà de la fin, il n'y a pas de fin.”
Source: Sortie parc, gare d'Ueno
“Tant qu’un lecteur n’a pas reposé son livre de plein gré, c’est un individu potentiellement dangereux.
- "Bouquiner”
“Sorti de la bibliothèque, il serre sous son bras les trésors empruntés. La lumière des réverbères permet de commencer la lecture dans la rue. La psyché du futur philosophe se nourrit de ce monde inédit, méconnu, inconnu. Camus découvre le formidable pouvoir des mots, la magie de la lecture, l'immense puissance des livres. Rentré chez lui, il pose le volume sur la toile cirée de la table de la cuisine, le place sous le rond de lumière de la lampe à pétrole, l'ouvre et le lit. Le monde autour de lui disparaît; il entre de plain-pied dans un univers qui le sauve. Le livre ramasse le monde des antimondes.”
Source: L'ordre libertaire: la vie philosophique d'Albert Camus