Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying. --Studs Terkel (in What Makes Us Feel Good About Our Work)

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in Rachel Remen: The Soul of Medicine)

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. --Phillips Brooks (in Untitled)

"The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse." --Confucius (in Untitled)

Life is no brief candle to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. --George Bernard Shaw (in Untitled)

This is the true joy in life, being recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for it’s own sake; Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got to hold up for a moment. I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. --George Bernard Shaw (in A Splendid Torch)

The beautiful things we shall write if we have talent are inside us, indistinct, like the memory of a melody which delights us though we are unable to recapture its outline. Those who are obsessed by this blurred memory of truths they have never known are the men who are gifted... Talent is like a sort of memory which will enable them finally to bring this indistinct music closer to them, to hear it clearly, to note it down... --Marcel Proust in "Against Sainte-Beuve:" (in Talent)

Thirty-five years earlier, before the relapse of my dystrophy, I couldn't have done what I've done. I was a businesswoman, I had a shop, I was in a marriage, and I was a conformist. I probably had to go through all this to come out at the other end, to be sort of hit on the head and to realize that my former life wasn't all that good and that it was time to try something else. --Hanni Sager (in Hanni's Toy Workshops in Mexico)

Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy. --Benjamin Franklin (in No Time for Complaining)

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. --Lewis Carroll (in A College Degree 23 yrs After Memory Loss)

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are. --C.S. Lewis (in Three Parables to Regain Perspective)

Life is no "brief candle" to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. --George Bernard Shaw (in Inside Tim Tebow's World of Kindness)

Humans are just the sort of organisms that interpret and modify their agency through their conception of themselves. This is a complicated biological fact about us. --Amelie Rorty (in What Makes A Person?: Identity's 7 Layers)

Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. --Alex Haley (in Tea with Betty Peck)

My goal in medicine is to help provide a way to navigate and sort through health information based on an entirely new way of thinking about health and disease. --Mark Hyman (in Young Forever: Why Balance Matters)