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2c0755e You could also ask who's in charge. Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook. host humans life Neil deGrasse Tyson
26f334b "Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed." demon fablehaven fair keys life mull prison Brandon Mull
98159dd Darling, I wish I could help you. Try to remember this: to live, you need every experience. Some will come in glory and in beauty, and some in pain and what seems like ugliness. But - they are. Life consists of opposites in balance. life Marion Zimmer Bradley
2c374aa Every nowhere is somewhere[...] inspirational journey life David Mitchell
cf91a90 Once you go on welfare it changes you. Even if you get off welfare, you never escape the stigma that you were a charity case. You're scarred for life. life state-benefits welfare Jeannette Walls
7041d8e Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy. growth life word John Piper
c08b8a8 Don't be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again. afraid fear freedom life marguerite-duras wisdom Marguerite Duras
3991672 Your attitude toward others, work, and your daily life is a reflection of your attitude toward God. christian daily faith god life love reflect reflection walk woman Elizabeth George
d34a2e9 World-class cereal-eating is a dance of fine compromises. The giant heaping bowl of sodden cereal, awash in milk, is the mark of the novice. Ideally one wants the bone-dry cereal nuggets and the cryogenic milk to enter the mouth with minimal contact and for the entire reaction between them to take place in the mouth. Randy has worked out a set of mental blueprints for a special cereal-eating spoon that will have a tube running down the handle and a little pump for the milk, so that you can spoon dry cereal up out of a bowl, hit a button with your thumb, and squirt milk into the bowl of the spoon even as you are introducing it into your mouth. The next best thing is to work in small increments, putting only a small amount of Cap'n Crunch in your bowl at a time and eating it all up before it becomes a pit of loathsome slime, which, in the case of Cap'n Crunch, takes about thirty seconds. food life Neal Stephenson
54d1f00 Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live. hope inspirational life Elizabeth Gilbert
b1b456b If/when I die, do not want Pam lonely. Want her to remarry, have full life. As long as new husband is nice guy. Gentle guy. Religious guy. Very caring + good to kids. But kids not fooled. Kids prefer dead dad (i.e., me) to religious guy. Pale, boring, religious guy, with no oomph, who wears weird sweaters and is always a little sad, due to, cannot get boner, due to physical ailment. Ha ha. Death very much on my mind tonight, future reader. Can it be true? That I will die? That Pam, kids will die? Is awful. Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like. Note to self: try harder, in all things, to be better person. death life George Saunders
4ae92b2 There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the most inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious. life reality realization Nicholas Sparks
1ab0167 I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actually give pleasure to those I love best. There, gentlemen, since you wanted to know how I was getting on, I have told you. Much good may it do you! I cannot explain further here. I perceive there is something wrong somewhere in our social formulas: what it is can only be discovered by men or women with greater insight than mine--if, indeed, they ever discover it-- at least in our time. 'For who knoweth what is good for man in this life?--and who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? life plans youth Thomas Hardy
d1f2e5d At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else. life Mitch Albom
70cba04 "STRAUSS:Have you ever thought about putting those experiences into a book? RICHIE:I did decide to write about what i experienced in climbing to the top. And finally when I got there, I discovered what was at the top.You know what was there? climbing experiences finally life top writing Neil Strauss
ebf8a7e All this hoping for nothing-or someone-that's maybe hopeless life Rachel Cohn & David Levithan
11bdec8 Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the books have never come up to what was in my head, and that the rewards--the comfortable income, the public notice, the literary prizes, and the honorary degrees--have been tinsel, not what a grown man should be content with. adulthood life Wallace Stegner
e8d4510 Though the face before me was that of a young woman of certainly not more than thirty years, in perfect health and the first flush of ripened beauty, yet it bore stamped upon it a seal of unutterable experience, and of deep acquaintance with grief and passion. Not even the slow smile that crept about the dimples of her mouth could hide the shadow of sin and sorrow. It shone even in the light of those glorious eyes, it was present in the air of majesty, and it seemed to say: 'Behold me, lovely as no woman was or is, undying and half-divine; memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes. beauty goddess immortality life sorrow H. Rider Haggard
e2cd0b5 Nix: I'm actively involved in steering the lives of thousands of beings. Which directly affects hundreds of thousands, which indirectly affects millions, with a ripple effect reaching billions. If someone said, 'It ain't easy being Nixie,' I wouldn't cal him a liar. life nix nix-the-ever-knowing soothsaying Kresley Cole
118695a Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you. cerise ilona-andrews life the-edge Ilona Andrews
4e6286c This is the middle. Things have had time to get complicated, messy, really. Nothing is simple anymore... This is the thick of things. So much is crowded into the middle-- ...too much to name, too much to think about. life life-lessons Billy Collins
81863c4 I had drunk much wine and afterward coffee and Strega and I explained, winefully, how we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things. life time wine Ernest Hemingway
d9c28d7 We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't. impossible-things life possible the-world Ron Rash
cad9122 I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try -- without let up -- to break you. life work Mary Karr
4820e9a When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him. direction left life meaning person right street Denis Johnson
092c57b ...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. american jhumpa-lahiri life money the-namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
4042069 I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees. leaves life tree Arthur Golden
fc543b0 "Is there anyone's life story you don't want to know?" "Not really." His expression was unexpectedly serious. "Because people make a story of their lives. Gains, losses, tragedy and triumph--you can tell a lot about someone simply by what they put into each category. You can learn a lot about what you put into each category by your reaction to them. They teach you about yourself without ever intending to do it--and they teach you a lot about life." life rennick story Michelle Sagara West
7964300 Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior. life memory parents-and-children past Julian Barnes
5040bcf Once you're lost, you panic. You're in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can be a real pain that way, 'cause when you get in the mood all you can think about is what's right under your nose - that's sex, all right. life sex Haruki Murakami
500d825 The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter growing-up growth hard haruki-murakami inspirational life strong survival survivor trees Haruki Murakami
81a8241 And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as. That was your nature, whether you liked it or not. life Julian Barnes
9875758 Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what you damn well please with the world. And of course you mean to go right on doing what you damn well please with it, because the whole damn thing belongs to you. humanity humans life ownership Daniel Quinn
ecefb57 God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory? life Charlotte Brontë
3bf34b9 But you don't always get what you want;,you get what you get desire get life want wish Anne Lamott
5821f89 When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it may be, or you could relax and lose yourself. decision-making inspirational life reality truth Ken Kesey
771f01c Into the silence rips a sound that makes me let go of Max's hand and cover my ears. It is like the strafe of a bullet, nails on a chalkboard, promises being broken. It's a note I have never heard - this chord of pure pain - and it takes a moment to realize it is coming from me. life Jodi Picoult
98b1949 "Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason, but at the very least you will be living grandly." life Marisha Pessl
9c64de2 And then a memory from Avalon surfaced in her mind, something she had not thought of for a decade; one of the Druids, giving instruction in the secret wisdom to the young priestesses, had said, If you would have the message of the Gods to direct your life, look for that which repeats, again and again; for this is the message given you by the Gods, the karmic lesson you must learn for this incarnation. It comes again and again until you have made it part of your soul and your enduring spirit. karma life meaning Marion Zimmer Bradley
8ee5af5 And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number. endeavors greed humanity ladder learning life mankind materialism things-that-matter want H. Rider Haggard
31071c3 At birth we are red-faced, round, intense, pure. The crimson fire of universal consciousness burns in us. Gradually, however, we are devoured by our parents, gulped by schools, chewed up by peers, swallowed by social institutions, wolfed by bad habits, and gnawed by age; and by that time we have been digested, cow style, in those six stomachs, we emerge a single disgusting shade of brown. The lesson of the beet, then, is this: hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find that you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means, Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone. life Tom Robbins
6f615ac It was Calzas who told me that your life is a road along which you leave many markers - points in time and places on the map. The ones in time you can only revisit in your mind, and they never change. The places can be revisited firsthand, but they're constantly changing. To keep a place the same, he said, you can no longer return to it - and then it becomes a point in time. life nicholas-christopher Nicholas Christopher
8281505 It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings...Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late...to believe in them after the fact. hope inspirational life Natsuki Takaya
0bc53b9 Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement. life Jonathan Safran Foer
45d1f4e Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery? gray-book life misery white Mary Balogh
8bb43e1 ...nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side. determination life vileness Peter Straub
978b89e I watched bulls bred to cows, watched mares foal, I saw life come from the egg and the multiplicative wonders of mudholes and ponds, the jell and slime of life shimmering in gravid expectation. Everywhere I looked, life sprang from something not life, insects unfolded from sacs on the surface of still waters and were instantly on prowl for their dinner, everything that came into being knew at once what to do and did it, unastonished that it was what it was, unimpressed by where it was, the great earth heaving up bloodied newborns from every pore, every cell, bearing the variousness of itself from every conceivable substance which it contained in itself, sprouting life that flew or waved in the wind or blew from the mountains or stuck to the damp black underside of rocks, or swam or suckled or bellowed or silently separated in two. life vitality E.L. Doctorow
fca860d She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off. complicated joy joys life like-life living lorrie-moore pressure quote quotes realization short-story small-joys Lorrie Moore
dd21462 Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong. judgement life philosophy Amartya Sen
c54243c Oshche sega stani skala, v koiato v'lnite na zhivota shche se udriat naprazno... life James Clavell
e54ec74 I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing? No. It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death. It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even. life responsibility Jean-Paul Sartre
80e14b1 Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have. life philosophy wisdom Joanne Harris
86340b1 ...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things. life ordinary Bill Bryson
5046657 So, if people didn't settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea - or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don't know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place. humor life sedentary Bill Bryson
87fc769 I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren. death hanging life lol teenagers the-more-things-change Karen Cushman
4b755c5 You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them. learning lesson life love John Irving
9f19d53 Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating. life spirituality Karen Armstrong
84afe46 Living is like being chained at the bottom of a shallow pond with my eyes open and no air. I can see distorted images of happiness and light, even hear muffled laughter, but everything is out of my reach as I lie in suffocating agony. If death is the opposite of living, then I hope death is like floating. depression life sadness Katie McGarry
38e08e0 Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. challenges endurance life pain persistence strength suffering Alexandre Dumas
1b7f97e There would be love, and while it was mine, I could cling to it. I could rejoice -- in life, in the existence of love. In the existence of people like Phedre and Joscelin. Although the standards they set were impossibly high, still, I could rejoice that such courage and compassion existed in the world. I could hope and aspire. hope life love Jacqueline Carey
7bab957 Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms. life life-is-short margaret-atwood mortality the-robber-bride Margaret Atwood
84d88cd "My life will be what I make it," he told her. "That is true for all of us all the time. We cannot know what the future will bring or how the events of the future will make us feel. We cannot even plan and feel any certainty that our most carefully contrived plans will be put into effect. Could I have predicted what happened to me in the Peninsula? Could you have predicted what happened to you in Cornwall? But those things happened to us nevertheless. And they changed our plans and our dreams so radically that we both might have been excused for giving up, for never planning or dreaming again, for never living again. That too is a choice we all have to make." dream life Mary Balogh
0ea7a0a "Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?" life love Jodi Picoult
78f9986 When you cultivate a godly thought life your soul will shine and you will exhibit the presence of the Lord in you. christian cultivate exhibit god godly life lord presence shine soul thought Elizabeth George
2cb476e "History doesn't start with a tall building amnesia androids apocalypse carrack cityisle cityspire count damnation death desolate dreams emily-dickinson empty fedora ghosts gothic greek-mythology haunting haunts horace-walpole jazz life magic magick mannequins masquerade music phillip-k-dick piano poems puddles rain reflections romance sacrifice science-fiction sex shakespeare ships songs specters spectre storms tempest waking water Nathan Reese Maher
33eb66d "UP You wake up filled with dread. There seems no reason for it. Morning light sifts through the window, there is birdsong, you can't get out of bed. It's something about the crumpled sheets hanging over the edge like jungle foliage, the terry slippers gaping their dark pink mouths for your feet, the unseen breakfast--some of it in the refrigerator you do not dare to open--you will not dare to eat. What prevents you? The future. The future tense, immense as outer space. You could get lost there. No. Nothing so simple. The past, its density and drowned events pressing you down, like sea water, like gelatin filling your lungs instead of air. Forget all that and let's get up. Try moving your arm. Try moving your head. Pretend the house is on fire and you must run or burn. No, that one's useless. It's never worked before. Where is it coming form, this echo, this huge No that surrounds you, silent as the folds of the yellow curtains, mute as the cheerful Mexican bowl with its cargo of mummified flowers? (You chose the colours of the sun, not the dried neutrals of shadow. God knows you've tried.) Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. fear forgiveness future life past poetry Margaret Atwood
01b30f9 ljmy` shGwfwn bls`d@ w lknh klqmr lmHjwb wr sHb lsht life Naguib Mahfouz
b062b13 In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. gratefulness life wisdom Elizabeth Gilbert
6c50428 You ever think how the most minor decision can change the entire direction of your life? Like, say you miss your bus one morning, so you buy that second cup of coffee, buy a scratch ticket while you're at it. The scratch ticket hits. Suddenly you don't have to take the bus anymore. You drive to work in a Lincoln. But you get in a car crash and die. All because you missed your bus one day. I'm just saying there are threads, okay? Threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected. life Dennis Lehane
4147265 Do little things every day that no one else seems to want to do, be patient, and success will find you. elizabeth-gilbert enlightenment life success wisdom writing Brandi L. Bates
c064b5c ...Not that it was unjust; not that the scales were forced out of balance. Where there had been good, it showed as clearly. Kindnesses, accomplishments, all those were present, too. life Richard Matheson
9231bdd I just think the world ought to be more sort of organized.' 'That's just fantasy,' said Twoflower. 'I know. That's the trouble.' Rincewind sighed again. fantasy humour life Terry Pratchett
baae42c Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences. displacement experience importance life Thomas Hardy
bd645d2 There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid. life mistakes past present reverse said the-neighbor undone Lisa Gardner
537177f People don't know. We don't know ourselves so we tell ourselves what we really know is other people. We could say the depth of pain we feel for the lovers who've left us is because we knew them so well. life love pain relationships Emma Forrest
064e8e5 We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful. art individuality life museums Orhan Pamuk
028f225 Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it? life louisa-may-alcott Louisa May Alcott
1e0bdb5 Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope. fear life George R.R. Martin
19a789a Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies. dream life passion strange Truman Capote
3610317 I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again. careers employment failure getting-fired human-nature job-losses learning-from-mistakes life life-lessons losing-hope losing-self loss mistake mistakes self-worth Gillian Flynn
a3eacc4 One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. conventions duty gustave-flaubert life madame-bovary rodolphe society unconventional Gustave Flaubert
9d97e4c Death often is the point of life's joke. life Vladimir Nabokov
128a0e4 The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But while there was life there was fear. life relationships L.M. Montgomery
a559d9a The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow. growth life Jack Kerouac
03e5080 With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe. life purpose universe Orson Scott Card
4389103 Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life. dying-animals humans life straw-dogs suicide John Gray
06207a9 It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years. Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life? And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human. ego houses human life old-houses spirit years Nora Roberts
9dbfccc This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions. exhaustion life women Elizabeth Gilbert
1a24dd6 Much of life is a game. If played skillfully, with an intelligent and fascinating opponent, it can become almost a dance. One challenges and moves, the other teases and skips away, only to dart forward later and strike a telling blow. life Elizabeth Hoyt
19db57b "You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said. "And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon the beauties of living. Women know this more often than men because birth is the reflection of death." death life preservation survivor Frank Herbert
4ab75d7 It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness--cry and then walk--but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order. life logic loss math numbers Aimee Bender
4945439 If I had thought the beef marrow might be a hell of a lot of work for not much difference, I needn't have worried. The taste of the marrow is rich, meaty, intense in a nearly-too-much way. In my increasingly depraved state, I could think of nothing at first but that it tasted like really good sex. But there was something more than that, even. What it really tastes like is life, well lived. Of course the cow I got marrow from had a fairly crappy life - lots of crowds and overmedication and bland food that might or might not have been a relative. But deep in his or her bones, there was a capacity for feral joy. I could taste it. cooking cows food life marrow meat sex Julie Powell
2db576b - Niama drugo miasto kato moreto, gospoda. Tezi, koito tsial zhivot izkarvat na sushata, nikoga niama da go razberat. Moreto e p'rvichno, poniakoga e zhestoko, drug p't - nezhno, i nikoga - predskazuemo. bulgaria bulgarian fantasy feist life magic magician master night raymond riftwar saga sea амос българия български война живот more моряк разлом реймънд фийст Raymond E. Feist
4a77a3b Life has a way of kicking one along like a football, or so I've found. Fate had never dealt me personally a particularly easy time, but that was OK, that was normal. Most people, it seemed to me, took their turn to be football. Most survived. Some didn't. life survival Dick Francis
24b11ec And it was knowing that I could still be ... still be afraid of everyhting, but not letting fear stop me from living fear life living Jennifer L. Armentrout
cc2b073 It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees. life Terry Pratchett
2cda6ab What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together important inspiration life normal what-happened what-is-normal Terry Pratchett
2675c4f So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was dispensing capability and cop on? Looking at shoes, probably. life women Marian Keyes
c50b8df " Poor little old human beings - they're jerked into this world without having any idea where they came from or what it is they are supposed to do, or how long they have to do it in. Or where they are gonna wind up after that. But bless their hearts, most of them wake up every morning and keep on trying to make some sense out of it. Why, you can't help but love them, can you? I just wonder why more of them aren't as crazy as betsy bugs. " Aunt Elner, 1978" human-beings life Fannie Flagg
1cbf06b Most of us are naturally inclined to struggle against the restrictions our friends and family impose upon us, but if we are so unfortunate as to lose a loved one, what a difference then! Then the restriction becomes a sacred trust. inspirational life losing restriction trust Susanna Clarke
8410667 It's the end of the world every day, for someone. life Margaret Atwood
6b19cf8 However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place? life religion science Richard Dawkins
5511fee You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. comfort death life living relax Ian Fleming
05a3dd2 Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it. life people Nick Hornby
4fb4ce7 In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came to the practicalities of life, a ruthless pragmatism often came into play. Kings and noblemen married for political advantage, and women rarely had any say in how they or their wealth were to be disposed in marriage. Kings would sell off heiresses and rich widows to the highest bidder, for political or territorial advantage, and those who resisted were heavily fined. Young girls of good birth were strictly reared, often in convents, and married off at fourteen or even earlier to suit their parents' or overlord's purposes. The betrothal of infants was not uncommon, despite the church's disapproval. It was a father's duty to bestow his daughters in marriage; if he was dead, his overlord or the King himself would act for him. Personal choice was rarely and issue. Upon marriage, a girl's property and rights became invested in her husband, to whom she owed absolute obedience. Every husband had the right to enforce this duty in whichever way he thought fit--as Eleanor was to find out to her cost. Wife-beating was common, although the Church did at this time attempt to restrict the length of the rod that a husband might use. eleanor-of-aquitaine feminism history life marriage medieval medieval-history oppression politics royalty serfdom slavery Alison Weir
a2fa3ad You had a near life experience. life Chuck Palahniuk
87c0667 ... a knowledge of how to live was a knowledge of how to die. life Richard Wright
f162cad It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing. book falling fly flying freedom happiness happy inspiration inspirational life living love Tim O'Brien
26f5ec1 "But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch." -- life love Philippa Gregory
b789e92 "She dances a little jig. "This would make one hell of a TV show, huh?" "Yeah. But no one would believe it." I should let it go. But it's like the hole, like the door, and I have to know. Or at least, I have to ask. "Hey, Dulcie, was any of that real?" She finishes her dance and the wings come to rest. "Who's to say what's real or not?" "Yeah, but--my barometer on reality, not so good since I started going crazy. "Yeah, well, who but the mad would choose to keep on living? In the end, aren't we all just a little crazy?" crazy life people Libba Bray
6b3e0cf Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, not perfection but a perfect moment like this one... life perfection Anaïs Nin
a6d036a The two of them simply weren't attracted to just any attractive, eligible man; they were attracted rarely, but when it happened, it was evidently a life-altering experience. experience life Judith McNaught
3ea14d5 ...but somehow when it's real, when it's your life... that person can feel even farther off and more unobtainable than an actual celebrity. Proximity doesn't breed familiarity life maureen-johnson proximity Maureen Johnson
179bbfd I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is. goodness life people reality self-awareness James Baldwin
9fb0c53 I worked it through with pride,I almost spoke without words, and i'm masterly at speaking without words.All my life I have spoken without words, and I have passed through whole tragedies on my own account without words life master silence silent speaking talking tragedies words Fyodor Dostoyevsky
765476b The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It resists finishing, and partly this is because words are not enough; my early world was synaesthesic, and I am haunted by the ghosts of my own sense impressions, which re-emerge when I try to write, and shiver between the lines. consciousness ghosts life past Hilary Mantel
f814f25 GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current... life metaphor Tom Stoppard
c28ca94 wjwdk fy Hyty ymthl ly kl 'ml wHlm tmnyt tHqyqh , wmhm yHdth ln fy lmstqbl , fsykwn kl ywm ymr `lyn m`an hw '`Zm ywm fy Hytn , wsykwn qlby dy'man mlkan lk life love-story novel Nicholas Sparks
50ff67e She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven. choices-and-consequences faith heaven hope life love oppurtunity risk Nicholas Sparks
68f0e65 We are here to witness. There is nothing else to do with those mute materials we do not need. Until Larry teaches his stone to talk, until God changes his mind, or until the pagan gods slip back to their hilltop groves, all we can do with the whole inhuman array is watch it. life nature watching Annie Dillard
19e02dc A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way. divided life truth Paulo Coelho
67b7948 A first premonition of the rich variety of life had come to him; for the first time he thought he had understood the nature of human beings - they needed each other even when they appeared hostile, and it was very sweet to be loved by them. life love need Stefan Zweig
4f863a3 Interesting how life goes on in spite of itself. life Maria V. Snyder
7eda08b One should not believe too easily in a life which can easily vanish. life love relationships James Salter
8cbe568 I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death. characters death life reading Will Schwalbe
261d68a "I've had a great deal of experience with adolescents over the centuries, and I've discovered that as a group these awkward half children take themselves far too seriously. Moreover, appearance is everything for the adolescent. I suppose it's a form of play-acting. The adolescent life David & Leigh Eddings
fde01e4 You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times. enjoyment life living Natalie Goldberg
0940a3f You say your life is your own. But can you dare to ignore the chance that you are taking part in a gigantic drama under the orders of a divine Producer? Your cue may not come till the end of the play--it may be totally unimportant, a mere walking-on part, but upon it may hang the issues of the play if you do not give the cue to another player. The whole edifice may crumple. You as you, may not matter to anyone in the world, but you as a person in a particular place may matter unimaginably. importance-of-existence life play role Agatha Christie
656b829 Yet she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreathes heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing but this; while the women, judging from her own experience, would all the time be feeling, This is not what we want; there is nothing more tedious, puerile and inhumane than love; yet it is also absolutely beautiful and necessary. life love modernism relationships to-the-lighthouse virginia-woolf Virginia Woolf
426cbca But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book. life Julian Barnes
17d5d2f Is Life itself a dream, I wonder? life philosophical question Lewis Carroll
30503c4 And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. life love mistakes past wisedom Khaled Hosseini
676d54c As a general rule, the less one's sense of life fulfillment, the greater one's death anxiety. fulfillment general life sense Irvin D. Yalom
f490a3d All she had to do was make the simplest of gestures - open her hands and let go her hold. She lifted one hand and moved the fingers of it; they responded, in surprise and obedience, and this obedience of a thousand little unsuspected muscles was in itself a miracle. Why ask for more? life Simone de Beauvoir
8b39223 The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. life thought-provoking Tom Robbins
4e4e062 It was a pity that there was no radar to guide one across the trackless seas of life. Every man had to find his own way, steered by some secret compass of the soul. And sometimes, late or early, the compass lost its power and spun aimlessly on its bearings. Alan Bishop compass direction life Arthur C. Clarke
ef0f907 Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. hopes humiliation life nature perspective Alain de Botton
4b1fdee Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it. life live love Mary Balogh
c3c886c Listen! What is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying in the act, sometimes carried away into the heavens. But if that seed be good and heavy it may perchance travel a little way on the road it wills. It is well to try and journey one's road and to fight with the air. Man must die. At the worst he can but die a little sooner. inspirational life H. Rider Haggard
d18258c "It's your duty to use what influence you have, unless you want to drift through life like a fish belly-up on the stream" "I wish I could believe that life really is something more than a stream that carries us along, belly-up" "Alright, if it's a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you? The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have-" "Oh, that's fine, I'm sure, when you have advantages." "You'd find them everywhere, if you ever bothered to look!" life stream Arthur Golden
d9c35b2 Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk to me about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead! baby buy child children cry crying dead death eyes glare glares glaring kid kids life money-monetary plead pleading talk talking young young-adults youth V.C. Andrews
b29bc9f The road to happiness is paved with good deeds for others. goodness happiness life people purpose road-to-happiness Lisa Schroeder
c905926 Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn't see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it. life realizations Donna Freitas
6e07d4e I write. My hand is shaking; my eyes sting and fill. I add before pushing the notebook and pen back across the table, wiping a hand across my cheeks. As he reads, my impulse is to reach out, grab the notebook, run outside, dump it in the trash, bury it in the snow, throw it under the wheels of a passing car - something, something, so I can go back fifteen seconds when this part ofme was still shut away and private. Then I look at Ravi's face again, and the normally white white whites of his eyes are pink. This causes major disruption to my ability to control the flow of my own tears. I see myself when I look at him right now: he's reflecting my sadness, my broken heart, back to me. He takes the pe, writes, and slides it over. You'd think it's something epic from the way it levels my heart. It isn't. Four little words. grief life sorrow Sara Zarr
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