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90c39ac Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there's always something waiting, and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living. fate living death life inspirational Truman Capote
44fb695 Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God. thoughts god life Victor Hugo
8588e92 They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. life life-philosophy Bill Watterson
c78ae7a Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? death life self John Updike
8ade60d There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. [...] Somebody else must be responsible for my well-being, and somebody else must be to blame if I am hurt. Is it a similar infantilism that really lies behind the 'need' for a God? responsibility religion life Richard Dawkins
681ded4 Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt. trying life dark-companion games fairness Marta Acosta
9e8869d If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean--even if it did build muscle--whereas to wish to be young again and to have the benefit of one's learned and acquired existence is not at all to wish for a repeat performance, or a Groundhog Day. And the mind ought to, but cannot, set some limits to wish-thinking. All right, same but with more money, an even sturdier penis, slightly different parents, a briefer latency period... the thing is absurd. I seriously would like to know what it was to be a woman, but like blind Tiresias would also want the option of re-metamorphosing if I wished. How terrible it is that we have so many more desires than opportunities. money opportunity youth women life philosophy conundrums groundhog-day self-contradiction tiresias wishful-thinking parents desire old-age Christopher Hitchens
5710d48 Shit don't mean shit life inspirational Stephen King
ee45a59 Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength. god life lonely George Bernard Shaw
468258f It is always consoling to think of suicide; it's what gets one through many a bad night. suicide death life Gillian Flynn
1dd1e98 For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor. freedom life rights honor Ayn Rand
6382ca4 We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives living life purpose-of-living purpose-of-life journey Brian L. Weiss
b470340 Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand life leo-tolstoy life-philosophy Leo Tolstoy
fa736e7 "There are times when you don't belong and you think you're going to kill yourself. Once I went to a hotel. Later that night I made a plan. The plan was I would leave my family when my second child was born. And that's what I did. I got up one morning, made breakfast, went to the bus stop, got on a bus. I'd left a note. I got a job in a library in Canada. It would be wonderful to say you regretted it. It would be easy. But what does it mean? What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. There it is. No-one's going to forgive me. It was death. I chose life." -Laura Brown-" hopelessness loneliness spirit life Michael Cunningham
8ff9f28 Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter. inspiration life wisdom Marcel Proust
2877447 ...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with. life love partner storms problems Lisa Kleypas
b0b3bf7 We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down. spiritual life Margaret Atwood
29af0de Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on. violence futility life love labor self-love growth resurrection Bell Hooks
d1515df Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed. life equilibrium Ursula K. Le Guin
a5372af God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us. god life hands game Jeannette Walls
4e6097b Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful life legends Michael Moorcock
3fcdd19 Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us. life existentialism Tom Perrotta
3c4cc99 From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain. pain existence life coexist find-a-way haruki-murakam the-wind-up-bird-chronicle murakami intense center japanese painful japan exist purpose Haruki Murakami
3ace148 The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. change life Truman Capote
e366c5f The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars. time human life slaughterhouse-five Kurt Vonnegut
b272ddf ...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium. life sport Nick Hornby
2c49753 When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much. A calender that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did. Where the smoke from the chimney ended. How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table. I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness. feelings sadness happiness life old Jonathan Safran Foer
834503a I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all. time personality history life humans soul James Baldwin
3aa9d8e For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground. time life Virginia Woolf
361afe6 the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life. death religion life irreligion Umberto Eco
7448edf When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable). god life inspirational schedule will-of-god plans purpose Elisabeth Elliot
a9793fc "Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow. This is the way the world ends. from "The Hollow Man" poetry life philosophy despair T.S. Eliot
bee5f61 You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship. relationships life love Mitch Albom
21acd64 Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been. life Richard Matheson
d338b86 It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence. silence life connection Tom Perrotta
810f6bc Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful to take their interests into account in whatever he does. He is in fact a wilderness advocate of a certain kind. It is when he respects and nurtures the wilderness of his soil and his plants that his garden seems to flourish most. Wildness, he has found, resides not only out there, but right here: in his soil, in his plants, even in himself... But wildness is more a quality than a place, and though humans can't manufacture it, they can nourish and husband it... The gardener cultivates wildness, but he does so carefully and respectfully, in full recognition of its mystery. nature life nurture gardening wild wilderness Michael Pollan
560974a I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the sun. The course of water over the earth is circular coming down from the sky and circulating through the world to spread life and then evaporating up again. I live in a circular teepee and build my fire in a circle. The life cycles of plants and animals are circular. I live outside where I can see this. The ancient people understood that our world is a circle, but we modern people have lost site of that. I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life. Do people live in circles today? No. They live in boxes. They wake up every morning in a box of their bedrooms because a box next to them started making beeping noises to tell them it was time to get up. They eat their breakfast out of a box and then they throw that box away into another box. Then they leave the box where they live and get into another box with wheels and drive to work, which is just another big box broken into little cubicle boxes where a bunch of people spend their days sitting and staring at the computer boxes in front of them. When the day is over, everyone gets into the box with wheels again and goes home to the house boxes and spends the evening staring at the television boxes for entertainment. They get their music from a box, they get their food from a box, they keep their clothing in a box, they live their lives in a box. Break out of the box! This not the way humanity lived for thousands of years. nature life inspirational Elizabeth Gilbert
eff6766 Every thing in this world exist to wear you down world life wear-down break Tite Kubo
9a4f933 If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves. life old-age John Irving
e15f488 This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around. life mirrors Terry Pratchett
d0e8b27 Life owes me something more than it has paid me and I'm going out to collect it... life L.M. Montgomery
f5d2959 I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit. life self-respect Dick Francis
eee09e6 Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it. life Geoff Dyer
eaab255 Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. destiny life Darren Shan
7c41649 Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial. life justice David Gemmell
8bd84b1 You can't buy time, Nick. Ever. It's the only thing in life you can't get most of, and it's the one thing that will mercilessly tear you up when it's gone. It takes no pity on no soul and no heart. time life pity Sherrilyn Kenyon
24bbe14 To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom. life unfettered James Joyce
73c1bf6 Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die. death life Irvin D. Yalom
3ea1607 I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. life Margaret Atwood
c2f8fb8 if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane. aaa woman rain reality life love hurricane qoute she John Green
975d755 But you are not your bank account, or your ambition. You're not the cold clay lump you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are Spirit, you are love, and even though it is hard to believe sometimes, you are free. You're here to love, and be loved, freely. If you find out next week that you are terminally ill - and we're all terminally ill on this bus - what will matter are memories of beauty, that people loved you, and that you loved them. freedom life love you Anne Lamott
91ddf5d How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing. death life the-book-thief Markus Zusak
2dd1400 I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame. life meg-cabot lame Meg Cabot
f48a454 "If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first." This is another way of saying that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important task first." opportunity life goal brian-tracy frog difficult hardship hard task Brian Tracy
5e27bbe There was something wrong with her. She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger, a restlessness. An incomplete knowledge of herself. The sense of something farther away, beyond her reach. life love Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6baf0dc "Not the intense moment time man life moment T. S. Eliot
34769d3 This is how you start to get respect, by offering something that you have. life truth offer respect Mitch Albom
328966d He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle. life melancholy misfortune P.G. Wodehouse
b175e05 The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and gently tucked it in the oven, so that she wouldn't be disturbed by the noise of the small falls outside... When he pulled her out to feed her or just hold her, her body was tattooed with the newsprint... Sometimes he would rock her to sleep in his arms, and read her left to right, and know everything he needed to know about the world. If it wasn't written on her, it wasn't important to him. life love Jonathan Safran Foer
f33249f There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything. suicide life-and-living living life living-life living-life-to-the-fullest Nick Hornby
db9de52 That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself. happy fun friends books funny quote friendship life love gossip-girl book quotes knowledge Cecily von Ziegesar
c8523ae Being a good person, or a better person, or whatever it is you're worried about and trying to fix? It shouldn't change who you are. It means you become more like yourself. life Stephanie Perkins
ee7eee9 "I thought I wanted the truth, but I don't. The past is the past and it can't be changed. It's the future I'm interested in." -Gabriel McGregor" life Tilly Bagshawe
be4b83a Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. feelings life William Shakespeare
3b64cbe And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds. war life merlin pacifism nobility peace T.H. White
d598643 You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy. life philosophy truth chocolate Haruki Murakami
e5b85ea Sarai had treasured every stage of Rachel's childhood, enjoying the day-to-day normalcy of things; a normalcy which she quietly accepted as the best of life. She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal. life Dan Simmons
51a34de The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. individuality writing identity life Neil Gaiman
3793d90 [T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68) humanity living family life Karen Armstrong
8a61dbc Tirelessly they flew on and on, and tirelessly she kept pace. She felt a fierce joy possessing her, that she could command these immortal presences. And she rejoiced in her blood and flesh, in the rough pine bark she felt next to her skin, in the beat of her heart and the life of all her senses, and in the hunger she was feeling now, and in the presence of her sweet-voiced bluethroat daemon, and in the earth below her and the lives of every creature, plant and animal both; and she delighted in being of the same substance as them, and in knowing that when she died her flesh would nourish other lives as they had nourished her. joy life ruta-skadi Philip Pullman
0644ecd I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. courage prayer world kindness jesus god life love inspirational fortitude praying brave prudence precious stewardship grace kind pray Marilynne Robinson
34d7efd Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. life insprational today Ernest Hemingway
a124fa8 Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us by the accident of temporary confinement in the same circle. We never would have chosen these neighbors; life chose them for us. But thrown together on this island of living, we stretch to understand each other and are invigorated by the stretching. The difficulty with big city environment is that if we select--and we must in order to live and breathe and work in such crowded conditions--we tend to select people like ourselves, a very monotonous diet. All hors d'oeuvres and no meat; or all sweets and no vegetables, depending on the kind of people we are. But however much the diet may differ between us, one thing is fairly certain: we usually select the known, seldom the strange. We tend not to choose the unknown which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. people life everything-happens-for-a-reason Anne Morrow Lindbergh
dd83c9e For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless. life Mervyn Peake
13ddead Life is the train and not the station. life Paulo Coelho
1d957f9 It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do. providing life parents Jeannette Walls
0e976d4 It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny life Paulo Coelho
feaab42 Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it. life stab Holly Black
7a77939 There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won't complain. death science life Jeanette Winterson
d724735 Are we not all prisoners? She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell, and she had felt that was true of life--one scratched on the wall. limitations life Virginia Woolf
8ea96ea "I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here." He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me." life the-last-song nicholas-sparks home new-york Nicholas Sparks
605add9 I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did. dreams life Richard Ford
dd19ebc In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else. discovery science life particles understanding-the-world quantum-mechanics quantum-physics John Gribbin
d38ee7f There is a certain way of being human that is way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for . life individuals self uniqueness Charles Taylor
deed95f You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions. people life Robert Fulghum
06074c9 One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future. life Robin Hobb
910782b It was sort of the pattern to my life - I'd never been strong enough to deal with the things outside my control, to attack the enemies or outrun them. To avoid the pain. Always human and weak, the only thing I'd ever been able to do was keep going. Endure. Survive. life bella-swan breaking-dawn stephenie-meyer twilight Stephenie Meyer
b2edbe0 This world... belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. life Ken Kesey
c9ab83c There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious. killing life Brian Jacques
d489876 The people who deserved to die took forever to do so. Those who deserved to live always went too soon. good-and-evil injustice life Rick Riordan
166fa6d I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it. existence life finality definition Jean-Paul Sartre
804df13 Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever! pain sadness life Harriet Beecher Stowe
f6d3db1 "Dad, will they ever come back?" "No. And yes." Dad tucked away his harmonica. "No not them. But yes, other people like them. Not in a carnival. God knows what shape they'll come in next. But sunrise, noon, or at the latest, sunset tomorrow they'll show. They're on the road." "Oh, no," said Will. "Oh, yes, said Dad. "We got to watch out the rest of our lives. The fight's just begun." They moved around the carousel slowly. "What will they look like? How will we know them?" "Why," said Dad, quietly, "maybe they're already here." Both boys looked around swiftly. But there was only the meadow, the machine, and themselves. Will looked at Jim, at his father, and then down at his own body and hands. He glanced up at Dad. Dad nodded, once, gravely, and then nodded at the carousel, and stepped up on it, and touched a brass pole. Will stepped up beside him. Jim stepped up beside Will. Jim stroked a horse's mane. Will patted a horse's shoulders. The great machine softly tilted in the tides of night. Just three times around, ahead, thought Will. Hey. Just four times around, ahead, thought Jim. Boy. Just ten times around, back, thought Charles Halloway. Lord. Each read the thoughts in the other's eyes. How easy, thought Will. Just this once, thought Jim. But then, thought Charles Halloway, once you start, you'd always come back. One more ride and one more ride. And, after awhile, you'd offer rides to friends, and more friends until finally... The thought hit them all in the same quiet moment. ...finally you wind up owner of the carousel, keeper of the freaks... proprietor for some small part of eternity of the traveling dark carnival shows.... Maybe, said their eyes, they're already here." temptation dark light fear life internal-conflict evil Ray Bradbury
efdc119 "If at eighty you're not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a good walk, a good meal (with all the trimmings), if you can sleep without first taking a pill, if birds and flowers, mountains and sea still inspire you, you are a most fortunate individual and you should get down on your knees morning and night and thank the good Lord for his savin' and keepin' power. If you are young in years but already weary in spirit, already on your way to becoming an automaton, it may do you good to say to your boss - under your breath, of course - "Fuck you, Jack! you don't own me." If you can whistle up your ass, if you can be turned on by a fetching bottom or a lovely pair of teats, if you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world, if you are content to get nowhere, just take each day as it comes, if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from going sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you've got it half licked." life eighty Henry Miller
16d1f58 I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it. courage fear life inspirational i-am-the-messenger markus-zusak Markus Zusak
81e2e60 I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight. nature life sun Margaret Atwood
143d131 Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia. funny living life-lessons life fleet onomatopoeia out-of-context gormenghast witty Mervyn Peake
f09e4e3 You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming together,things falling apart,time warp, my mother standing out in front of the museum when time flickered and the light went funny, uncertainties hovering on the edge of a vast brightness. the stray chance that might, or might not, change everything. fate meaning life Donna Tartt
627fa6b Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life. solitude inspiration life peace Paulo Coelho
a53d035 We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it. life goal soul Paulo Coelho
37328c8 where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? life philosophy Victor Hugo
c98c0d7 As a convinced atheist, I ought to agree with Voltaire that Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil. Without the stern, joyless rabbis and their 613 dour prohibitions, we might have avoided the whole nightmare of the Old Testament, and the brutal, crude wrenching of that into prophecy-derived Christianity, and the later plagiarism and mutation of Judaism and Christianity into the various rival forms of Islam. Much of the time, I do concur with Voltaire, but not without acknowledging that Judaism is dialectical. There is, after all, a specifically Jewish version of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, with a specifically Jewish name--the --for itself. The term derives from the word for 'mind' or 'intellect,' and it is naturally associated with ethics rather than rituals, life rather than prohibitions, and assimilation over 'exile' or 'return.' It's everlastingly linked to the name of the great German teacher Moses Mendelssohn, one of those conspicuous Jewish hunchbacks who so upset and embarrassed Isaiah Berlin. (The other way to upset or embarrass Berlin, I found, was to mention that he himself was a cousin of Menachem Schneerson, the 'messianic' Lubavitcher .) However, even pre-enlightenment Judaism forces its adherents to study and think, it reluctantly teaches them what others think, and it may even teach them to think also. enlightenment christianity religion education life assimilation chabad-messianism dialectics haskalah isaiah-berlin menachem-mendel-schneerson messianism moses-mendelssohn prohibitions rebbes rituals rabbis exile monotheism judaism old-testament germans free-thought return study ethics plagiarism prophecy atheism voltaire islam intellect antisemitism thought evil Christopher Hitchens
e4f920f I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell. life inspirational Ray Bradbury
f8b4a23 And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people. life real-world Chuck Palahniuk
00f28e2 "Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes." Waddington reflected for a little while. "I wonder if it matters what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books the write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art." -- religion life philosophy W Somerset Maugham
35f8fff We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. life resignation Graham Greene
a8278c6 I lived my grief; I slept mourning and ate sorrow and drank tears. I ignored all else. mourning grief loss depression sorrow death life hollow pass-by numb mourn empty ignore tears forget Robin Hobb
33fcd21 Not everyone wants this conventional little life you're rowing your boat toward. I like my river of fire. And when it's time for me to go I fully intend to roll off my one-person dinghy into the flames and be consumed. I'm not afraid. life Zadie Smith
0a3bc56 At what point in our lives do we stop blurring? When do we become crisp individuals? What must we do in order to end these fuzzy identities - to clarify just who it is we really are? -Richard identity life Douglas Coupland
163bc3f Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life. travel trust life strangers Paul Theroux
1d579fc You too must seek the sun... profound life truth Allen Ginsberg
60bb1b7 I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind. hopelessness loneliness life Haruki Murakami
d7467bc Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I. life philosophy knowledge Leo Tolstoy
ed12776 It bothered me that he was right. Without Sir Stuart's intervention, I'd have been dead again already. That's right--you heard me: dead again already. I mean, come on. How screwed up is your life (after- or otherwise) when you find yourself needing phrases like that? life ghosts Jim Butcher
04cdc85 I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination. past life symbols looking-back path Jodi Picoult
10f49b9 Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources. lies work life resources Zadie Smith
739534a Wake up! Wake up! Soon the person you believe you are will die - so now, wake up and be content with this knowledge: there is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all ONE, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor, and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life; just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are for more than you imagine. you are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free! life inspirational worry Dan Millman
1a34a14 One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish. relationship life love James Salter
50f5290 You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are. life Cecelia Ahern
ecdd2dc Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not. faith inspirational-quotes life wisdom inspirational leanring Dan Millman
ee2ae36 ...everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go! time people life somewhere home Fyodor Dostoyevsky
58f2fa1 My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. life Elizabeth Barrett Browning
80e3d15 And how can you say I love you to someone you love? I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her. Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar. It's always necessary. life love Jonathan Safran Foer
d55443c This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses. lies life truth Holly Black
5f3fca0 The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. youth morality books life Haruki Murakami
54a7429 We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked -- as I am surprisingly often -- why I bother to get up in the mornings. To put it the other way round, isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be a part of it? life Richard Dawkins
2f2180f The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart. story heart life John Eldredge Brent Curtis
a20a417 Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in Earth's atmosphere are ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol sprays, vapor from mineral solvents, escaped coolants from refrigerators and air conditioners, and smog from the burning of fossil fuels. No other way to read that list: sure signs of the absence of intelligence. intelligence life Neil deGrasse Tyson
5111592 Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction -- you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart. life roads direction Ursula K. Le Guin
2c82744 We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form, we are in danger of putrefaction. Hell is life drying up. change life moving-forward plans grace vitality Joseph Campbell
885ef5d Having made the decision to love, had I chosen life instead of death? life love Richard Bach
919d83d We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes. life Christopher Hitchens
9a89164 I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am. life inspirational otma romanovs tsar-nicholas russian-revolution royalty self russia Sarah Miller
b85217d our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight. inspiration life Isabel Allende
325469b "Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes." Waddington reflected for a little while. "I wonder if it matters what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books the write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art." religion life philosophy W Somerset Maugham
8b90e4c I used to believe, although I don't now, that growing and growing up are analogous, that both are inevitable and uncontrollable processes. Now it seems to me that growing up is governed by the will, that one can choose to become an adult, but only at given moments. These moments come along fairly infrequently -during crises in relationships, for example, or when one has been given the chance to start afresh somewhere- and one can ignore them or seize them. life football Nick Hornby
edb5c1b You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races. life race Jeannette Walls
3338317 It's possible to name everything and to destroy the world. labels names life nomenclature control destruction Kathy Acker
0af1e26 I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. life sojourn Annie Dillard
d520221 Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard. death life Tom Robbins
01593f0 However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because he can't, since for him nothing is impossible, it's simply that he wouldn't know what face to wear when introducing himself to the beings he supposedly created and who probably wouldn't recognize him anyway. There are those who say we're very fortunate that god chooses not to appear before us, because compared with the shock we would get were such a thing to happen, our fear of death would be mere child's play. Besides, all the many things that have been said about god and about death are nothing but stories, and this is just another one. death god life José Saramago
405aff9 It's okay to be sad. Everyone gets sad now and then. Even me. life Nicholas Sparks
a54dbda "Haven't had your fill of interesting events?" "Never. They are the spice of life." She held up her half-finished hat. "How do you like it?" "It's nice. The blue is pretty. But what do the runes say?" "Raxacori-Oh, never mind. It wouldn't mean a thing to you anyway. Safe travels to you and Saphira, Eragon. And remember to watch out for earwigs and wild hamsters. Ferocious things, wild hamsters." " life earwigs hat wild-hamsters christopher-paolini eragon Christopher Paolini
56e46b2 It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye. life truth ordinary extraordinary Jodi Picoult
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