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4a4c65a Everything's different from us. That's why everything exists. universe seeing existence meaning reality god life love truth pantheism clarity paganism being Alberto Caeiro
a692565 we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the darkness all around us was fragrant green grass and the smell of fresh manure and warm waters. 'We're in the South! We've left the winter!' Faint daybreak illuminated green shoots by the side of the road. I took a deep breath; a locomotive howled across the darkness, mobile-bound. So were we. I took off my shirt and exulted joy life stoned south Jack Kerouac
b1f7e6b He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things. nature life Thomas Hardy
74c5071 "To quote a famous philosopher revered in my time 'But this is no different from regular life. When have you ever known what's going to happen in the future?'" Wait a minute, Jonah thought. I said that. Back at Westminster, with Katherine. Does that mean I'm going to be a famous philosopher in the future? Does that mean I'm going to be revered? There wasn't time to ask." time quote life revered philosopher time-travel Margaret Peterson Haddix
7697679 We cannot speak a loyal word and be meanly silent, we cannot kill and not kill in the same moment; but a moment is room wide enough for the loyal and mean desire, for the outlash of a murderous thought and the sharp bakcward stroke of repetance. life inspirational George Eliot
b051c26 I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245) life sad Nicole Krauss
373250e I learned something important that night. You shouldn't try to stop everything from happening. Sometimes you're supposed to feel awkward. Sometimes you're supposed to be vulnerable in front of people. Sometimes it's necessary because it's all part of you getting to the next part of yourself, the next day. life-lessons life insecurities selfconfidence life-lesson teenagers vulnerable vulnerability insecurity Cecelia Ahern
f48d4df She told us about the goddess called Persephone, who was forced to spend half a year in the darkness deep underground. Winter happened when she was trapped inside the earth. The days shrank, they became cold and short and dark. Living things hid themselves away. Spring came when she was released and made her slow way up to the world again. The world became brighter and bolder in order to welcome her back. It began to be filled with warmth and light. The animals dared to wake, they dared to have their young. Plants dared to send out buds and shoots. Life dared to come back. myth seasons winter nature life spring return persephone David Almond
5fa3b55 The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees life-lessons life values-in-life Sue Monk Kidd
b9fac40 It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes... dark life mental-hospital emotional vampire classic S.E. Hinton
7dab9f9 I want away to the house of death, to my father under the low, clay roof. life messengers Seamus Heaney
0c77038 A happening was looming. It was out there somewhere beyond the regular enclosed life that I had been living. It was out there, not waiting, but existing. Being. Perhaps it was only slightly wondering if I would come to it. life happening waiting Markus Zusak
4651d3e After sticking out life, I hope it's whatever you want it to be. life inspirational Jodi Picoult
74b47ae No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every man, worthy of the name, will row long against wind and tide before he allows himself to cry out, 'I am baffled!' and submits to be floated passively back to land. life profession Charlotte Brontë
10be694 "That part of your life is over. Set it aside as something you have finished. Complete or no, it is done with you. No being gets to decide what his life is "supposed to be"...'Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else." present fate good future honesty past destiny life truth aside complete forgo meant not part section set survive to decide done finish discover over end path be forget dead Robin Hobb
64d7d08 What I want is for you to build a bridge. A bridge that connects these two parts of my life so I don't have to choose one or the other I don't want to choose Because the thing about choices? You get something while you lose something else. If you choose wrong you risk losing everything. life love truth wisdom inspirational Lisa Schroeder
622a3f9 How do you survive for years in prison? You don't think about years, or months, or weeks. You think about today--how to get through it, how to survive it. When you wake up tomorrow, another day is behind you. The days add up; the weeks run together; the months become years. You realize how tough you are, how you can function and survive because you have no choice. life government-corruption jail John Grisham
cf1dc01 It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life. bravery life cowardness Jack London
b513482 I suppose at heart it was the haircut that did it; that exploded the ordinary order of things and showed me the possibilities that had been there all along, hidden among the patterns in the wallpaper. In a different age, we used to take acid for more or less the same reason. identity change life glbtq possibilities haircut drugs Michael Cunningham
4ddeda0 Our lives say much more about how we think than our books do. The theories we preach are not always the ones we actually believe. The theories we live are the ones we really believe. integrity life R.C. Sproul
43dbc58 Rick feels almost the way he used to halfway through his third drink, his favorite moment, the way he wishes all moments in life could feel: heightened with the sense that anything could happen at any moment--that being alive is important, because just when you least expect it, you might receive exactly what you least expect. life possibility wishful-thinking Douglas Coupland
80fc66a Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them. death life Alan Brennert
8906bb9 Don't you think they're as bored as you are? You think you're somebody special? You think I wake up everyday so happy to see you? You're a snob, just in the other way. Do you think you are the only one who wants something else? Another life? happiness life Zadie Smith
a283c50 "The most boring thing in the entire world," Brandy says, "is nudity." The second most boring thing, she says, is honesty." life invisible-monsters Chuck Palahniuk
8ce8efe Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss. humour life Stephen Chbosky
2eb853c I read once that sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks ahead. relationships life love Sandra Steffen
f28db89 I have to admit we are locked in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor. To describe it takes many hundreds of thousands of words. Our muck is only a part of a much greater muck -- the nation-state -- which is itself the creation of that muck of mucks, human consciousness. Of course all these things also have a touch of sublimity -- as when Moonbelly sings, for example, or all the lights go out. What a happy time that was, when all the electricity went away! If only we could re-create that paradise! By, for instance, all forgetting to pay our electric bills at the same time. All nine million of us. Then we'd all get those little notices that say unless we remit within five days the lights will go out. We all stand up from our chairs with the notice in ours hands. The same thought drifts across the furrowed surface of nine million minds. We wink at each other, through the walls. humor life human-society Donald Barthelme
acf931b What I urge is that you learn to master your life by living each day in a day-tight compartment and this will certainly ensure your safety throughout your entire journey of life. life Max Lucado
486c8b1 "Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?" said Arthur. Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh. "Forty-two!" he said with a malicious grin. "No, doesn't work. Never mind." -- universe humour life ultimate-question Douglas Adams
a3de40e Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page reading life stories Cornelia Funke
cfea8b9 No, Edward. You are here so I can teach you something. All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you. life Mitch Albom
8fff1c2 The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story - of course that is how we all live, it's the narrative of our lives, but adoption drops you into the story after it has started. It's like reading a book with the first few pages missing. It's like arriving after curtain up. The feeling that something is missing never, ever leaves you - and it can't, and it shouldn't, because something IS missing. That isn't of its nature negative. The missing part, the missing past, can be an opening, not a void. It can be an entry as well as an exit. It is the fossil record, the imprint of another life, and although you can never have that life, your fingers trace the space where it might have been, and your fingers learn a kind of Braille. life opening narrative birth longing-for-death nostalgia Jeanette Winterson
aad541d What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? life inspirational Jess Walter
274e321 At the time of Lewis and Clark, setting the prairies on fire was a well-known signal that meant, 'Come down to the water.' It was an extravagant gesture, but we can't do less. If the landscape reveals one certainty, it is that the extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation. After the extravagant gesture of creation in the first place, the universe has continued to deal exclusively in extravagances, flinging intricacies and colossi down aeons of emptiness, heaping profusions on profligacies with ever fresh vigor. The whole show has been on fire from the word go. I come down to the water to cool my eyes. But everywhere I look, I see fire: that which isn't flint is tinder, and the whole world sparks and flames. nature life wisdom landscape Annie Dillard
9aba9ad "Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of the two songs provided no commentary, honest or ironic, on the proceedings. They were merely there and always underfoot, the insistent gray muck that was pop culture. It stuck to our shoes and we tracked it through our lives." music songs life pop-culture Colson Whitehead
5118c19 There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double. life Graham Greene
ef82619 Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the art of the past, except as history or documentary. But our interest in art is our interest in ourselves both now and always. Here and forever. There is a sense of the human spirit as always existing. This makes our death bearable. Life + art is a boisterous communion/communication with the dead. It is a boxing match with time. time history death life human-spirit creativity Jeanette Winterson
f409a31 If I'm confused, or upset, or angry, if I can go out and look at the stars I'll almost always get back a sense of proportion. It's not that they make me feel insignificant; it's the very opposite; they make me feel that everything matters, be it ever so small, and that there's meaning to life even when it seems most meaningless. stars life Madeleine L'Engle
3a1b3df I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies lessons life lit restless quotes movies Sinclair Lewis
5766731 I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me. life love truth forgivness ender comprehension genius regret crazy Orson Scott Card
f3108ec "who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are going to make a difference in the world." world meaning life purpuse Orson Scott Card
abf0d17 "This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that bound everything together. And for him it was true. Life had been beautiful for him. He was very young. He knew very little of life. He saw beauty but he did not feel any true passion. How could he? He did not know. He had not really encountered the force of beauty's opposite." "Are you more cynical now, then?" she asked him. "Cynical," he frowned, "No, not that. I know that there is an ugly side of life-and not just human life. I know that everything is not simply beautiful. I am not a romantic as this boy was. But I am not a cynic either. There is something enduring in all of life, Anne, something tough. Something. Something terribly weak yet incredibly powerful..." romantic life cynic ugly Mary Balogh
c237b8c "But that is what life is all about, he said. "It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love." reality life Mary Balogh
ba89863 Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous. They're always just a little too cold. It always smells just a little bit too sharp and clean. It's always quiet, so quiet that you can hear the fluorescent lights - another constant, those lights - humming. Pretty much everyone else there is in the same bad predicament you are, and there isn't much in the way of cheerful conversation. And there's always a clock in sight. The clock has superpowers. It always seems to move too slowly. Look up at it and it will tell you the time. Look up an hour and a half later, and it will tell you two minutes have gone by. Yet it somehow simultaneously has the ability to remind you of how short life is, to make you acutely aware of how little time someone you love might have remaining to them. life love hospital waiting-room Jim Butcher
1bac605 In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree. universe wonder science life extraterrestrial-life Richard Dawkins
20d9d3c When you walk on the face of a world, then forgiveness comes. world life forgiveness journey Orson Scott Card
9a006ec What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book? reality life protagonist Julian Barnes
4862f07 God will help you make the choices that guide you into His path for each stage and age of your life. woman women faith god heart life love guide christian path stage Elizabeth George
244c708 Sometimes she stuck out into the future, imagining her life different from what is was. life Zora Neale Hurston
1d154f8 A responsible Warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment. responsibility world learning life shoulders warrior Paulo Coelho
1dd2cb4 I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. fiction life Robin McKinley
62b5bd4 Your body - every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. [...] The day your first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live. life Emma Donoghue
42e3e6d Jonahtan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull's life is so short,and with these gone from his thought,he lived a long life indeed. life never-stop-perfect-yourself Richard Bach
e2aafc9 What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, of a boa-constrictor? But apparently this improbable tiger had no intention of dying just yet. On the contrary, he intended taking a little walk, taking the boa-constrictor with him, even to pretend, for a while, it wasn't there. suffering life psychology Malcolm Lowry
6a91b37 The more bare a life is, the more we fear change. life greeneland mutability Graham Greene
4ef014f There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it. life significance thinking decisions ideas Alain de Botton
10d8b36 Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead down into the darkness inside the earth. Before crossing the bridge, each person had to place all his virtues in his right hand and all his sins in his left, and the imbalance between the two meant that the person always fell towards the side to which his actions on Earth had inclined him. good life evil Paulo Coelho
74787a2 Return again, return, life itself is calling you with all its pleasure and pain ... life Marion Zimmer Bradley
c3d582d "You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire." life-lessons life inspirational Margaret Atwood
71a1d24 One can build a perfect home, but not live in it. life Jonathan Safran Foer
08706a4 Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God. god life conceptualizing image Marcus J. Borg
f4072b9 I'm afraid you'll find out all too soon that life's a melancholy business. life L.M. Montgomery
667b300 Thinking is man's only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that nameless act which all of you practice, but struggle never to admit: the act of blanking out, the willful suspension of one's consciousness, the refusal to think - not blindness, but the refusal to see; not ignorance, but the refusal to know. It is the act of unfocusing your mind and inducing an inner fog to escape the responsibility of judgment - on the unstated premise that a thing will not exist if only you refuse to identify it, that A will not be A so long as you do not pronounce the verdict 'It is. virtue man mind good morality reason life philosophy truth wisdom john-galt pursuit-of-happiness objectivism rational think thinking morals values evil Ayn Rand
3f119f5 A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go.... fate life turns path Marion Zimmer Bradley
a544a7c Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where you are. life inspirational zen-and-the-art-of-happiness Chris Prentiss
2e0be52 There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick. silence life matter land Annie Dillard
e9c8962 Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice. life stoic invincible stubborn Epictetus
d6e7377 To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy. time life rhythms Tom Robbins
1be80d1 You know what's wrong with scientific power?... It's a form of inherited wealth... Most kinds of power require a substantial sacrifice by whoever wants the power. There is an apprenticeship, a discipline lasting many years. Whatever kind of power you want. President of the company. Black belt in karate. Spiritual Guru. Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it. It has to be very important to you. And once you have attained it, it is your power. It can't be given away: it resides in you. It is literally the result of your discipline. Now, what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to his with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of the getting the power changes you so that you won't abuse it. But scientific power is like inherited wealth: attained without discipline. You read what others have done, and you take the next step... There is no discipline... no mastery: old scientists are ignored. There is no humility before nature... A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is the kind of power that science fosters, and permits. science life meaning-of-life Michael Crichton
961b4fa You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too great, a superior right, that to life, outweighs the right to property. Ergo, the very poor have the right to steal from the very rich. poverty wealth politics life stealing rights crime Mohsin Hamid
698ea15 I was afraid to fall asleep, but staying awake also brought back painful memories. Memories I sometimes wish I could wash away, even though I am aware that they are an important part of what my life is; who I am now. I stayed up all night, anxiously waiting for daylight, so that I could fully return to my new life, to rediscover happiness I had known as a child, the joy that had stayed alive inside me even through times when being alive itself became a burden. These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. memories past life ishmael-beah Ishmael Beah
41a1212 We only have a few minutes. Let's make them worth our while. romance life Jennifer L. Armentrout
8c00253 Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master's chaise. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. living life Henry David Thoreau
282c0de Each day is God's gift of a fresh unspoiled opportunity to live according to His priorities. live god life fresh day priorities plan christian gift purpose Elizabeth George
a620a6f So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. life possibility Henry David Thoreau
c2c9b17 if you can't make a joke at a time like this, what's the point of living? laughter life Chloe Neill
ccc4814 l y`ny l`thwr `l~ 'mr mhmW fy lHy@ , ltkhlWy `n jmy` l'mwr lmhmW@ l'khr~ , wl ltnkuWr lh . life important Paulo Coelho
3fc6d7d It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To spread out, reach areas, experiences, comprehend and live in an evolving fashion. To push aside routine and repetition, to break out of mindless monotony and thrust forward. To keep moving on . . . life Philip K. Dick
fd9877c Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death. death life Julian Barnes
893d684 The story was clearly over, as in juggling when the ball you throw up finds the moment to come down, hesitates as if it might not, and then drops at the same speed of that celestial light. And life is no longer good but just what you happen to be holding. life E.L. Doctorow
f62aa0e The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. artists poets reality life walden ideas Henry David Thoreau
a1b53ae He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping. Nor did he care. sleep life truth purpuse ender genius Orson Scott Card
2f609f6 "Unlike me, he realized that Dustfinger would do anything in return for such a promise. All he wants is to go back to his own world. He doesn't even stop to ask if his story there has a happy ending!" "Well, that's no different from real life," remarked Elinor gloomily. "You never know if things will turn out well. Just now our own story looks like it's coming to a bad end." story life Cornelia Funke
0f84989 What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time. life Brian Christian
3d78b59 She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow. life social-life madame-de-prie twilight Stefan Zweig
b0ccf9d What is the reason?' 'Finish your journey and you will know. the-timekeeper mitch-albom god life-lessons life inspirational Mitch Albom
e6af670 We all started off this way - small little bundles of joy. Me, Aires, Noah, Lila, Isaiah and even Beth. At some point, someone held us and loved us, but somewhere along the way, it all got screwed up. life love Katie McGarry
67416ae We try and map boundaries, and to string fence - we try to set up a border between life and death, between man and nature, and complicity versus innocence. But the truth is, there is no complicity, there is no innocence; and there is no death, there is only life. life Rick Bass
6e9cbf3 "She leaves my side and heads deeper into sex shakespeare magic rain poems romance sacrifice death dreams music songs life carrack cityisle cityspire desolate fedora haunts horace-walpole mannequins phillip-k-dick puddles specters spectre amnesia androids haunting greek-mythology waking damnation count emily-dickinson magick tempest apocalypse reflections storms masquerade empty science-fiction gothic jazz ships ghosts water piano Nathan Reese Maher
7995988 It seemed to him harder, as he got older, to find a simple way of life. life harder simple-way simple-way-of-life older grown-ups grown-up simple Larry McMurtry
21081ea "The lesson of the Funk Dog: "You can forget what it used to feel like to feel good about life; feeling rotten--or just a low-grad funk--seems normal and therefore acceptable. I just don't believe that God intended for any of his creatures to be petted with sticks." life funk Jill Conner Browne
eabc995 ...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life. life disasters Don DeLillo
c8b913a I am infected with life and will die of it in time. life jonathan-rebeck Peter S. Beagle
041ceae We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on, life love fail genius failure Orson Scott Card
b4082fe "What else can you tell me?" Dad stares at me. "What have you learned while you were awake?" I learned that life is so, so fragile. I learned that you can know someone for just days and never forget the impression he left on you. I learned that art can be beautiful and sad at the same time. I learned that if someone loves you, he'll wait for you to love him back. I learned that how much you want something doesn't determine whether you get it or not, that "no" might not be enough, that life isn't fair, that my parents can't save me, that maybe no one can. "Nothing much," I mutter." time life colonel-martin shades-of-earth unfair nothing dad fragile chaos art save hard mess sad Beth Revis
3851b75 ...you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do. experiences pain reality life downfall difficulty challenges Lois Lowry
222932f Life is like invading Russia. A blitz start, massed shakos, plumes dancing like a flustered henhouse; a period of svelte progress recorded in ebullient despatches as the enemy falls back; then the beginning of a long, morale-sapping trudge with rations getting shorter and the first snowflakes upon your face. The enemy burns Moscow and you yield to General January, whose fingernails are very icicles. Bitter retreat. Harrying Cossacks. Eventually you fall beneath a boy-gunner's grapeshot while crossing some Polish river not even marked on your general's map. life Julian Barnes
0f60470 You have to be an artist and a madman... life philosophy truth-of-life Vladimir Nabokov
9e5e480 You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don't want to eke out my life like a resource in short supply. The only selfish life is a timid one. To hold back, to withdraw, to keep the best in reserve, both overvalues the self, and undervalues what the self is. life timidity self selfishness Jeanette Winterson
f111de5 dy'man mthb fy `lmn - ldhy qlm nfhmh - ryH l'qdr Hml@ 'Hdthan l ntwq`h . f'Hynan mt`Sf bkyn lmr , w'Hynan l nsh`r bh `l~ l'Tlq . wlknn l nstTy` nkrh . fhy tHml dy'man m`h mstqbln ldhy l nstTy` tjhlh life novel Nicholas Sparks
823175c Food for her is not food, it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love. As if the fruit she always offered us were picked from the destroyed brances of out family tree. life insprinational food Jonathan Safran Foer
78132cc What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing except his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. But that is all right because he is part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now. When people die they are sometimes put into coffins which means that they don't mix with the earth for a very long time until the wood of the coffin rots. But Mother was cremated. This means that she was put into a coffin and burnt and ground up and turned into ash and smoke. I do not know what happens to the ash and I couldn't ask at the crematorium because I didn't go to the funeral. But the smoke goes out of the chimney and into the air and sometimes I look up into the sky and I think that there are molecules of Mother up there, or in clouds over Africa or the Antartic, or coming down as rain in rainforests in Brazil, or in snow somewhere. nature death science life bodies cremation rot burial molecules decomposition decay energy funeral Mark Haddon
604e547 I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour. life regret Emma Donoghue
4e88e0c "What does 'stuck' mean?" "It means I should make some big decision, I should do some enormous thing. And I can't do anything. I can't stand my life, and I can't change it." "Maybe it's not an enormous thing," he says. "Maybe you have to do one small thing and then another small thing." life stuck-in-a-rut A.M. Homes
958e313 Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice -- and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal animal. Man has to be man -- by choice; he has to hold his life as a value -- by choice; he has to learn to sustain it -- by choice; he has to discover the values it requires and practice his virtues -- by choice. A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality. virtue man mind good morality choice reason life philosophy john-galt pursuit-of-happiness objectivism rational think thinking morals values evil Ayn Rand
026a5b2 When I come to the end of my life -- when I come to the real end, at the right time, my mind may flash with random images... But I am not being hopeful about this when I say my last thoughts will be of love. life love Emma Forrest
ebf981a The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality; all else being the play of thought. But it might as well be our greatest folly because that which exists only a moment and vanishes as a dream can never be worth a serious effort. meaning life Irvin D. Yalom
099f5d3 Life is all arrivals and departures. life departures Karen Joy Fowler
b3d410d The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water. meaning life razor-s-edge ripple river lake stone surface water W. Somerset Maugham
6dbf94d Sometimes, without effort, you live in the moment. You don't regret the past or worry about the future, and in that moment everything flashes before your eyes , a clear snapshot of what has to be done, and everything pauses. photography time dream future past imagination life snapshot kodak-moment pause clear clarity worry moment regret nostalgia Rebecca McNutt
320b0a7 I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. 'They're closed for business even though, somewhat confusingly, their doors open at eleven, Monday through Friday,' Dad said. And the trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting, because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably. life assured frustrating life-answers life-s-questions no-use teach father Marisha Pessl
262dce1 I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn't stand most men shuffling along with all the iron of the earth in their blood. I never met a man who weighed less than nine hundred pounds. people life lightness weight Ray Bradbury
e4e4216 The others were trying to spare you from pain. The truth can be devastating. We spend much of our lives protecting ourselves from it and shielding others as well. We use lies to take the edge off life. We dream of a better tomorrow. We hide from our regrets and inadequacies. We try to exaggerate the good and downplay the bad. We even mange to hide from the inescapable reality that sooner or later we and everyone we love is going to die. pain life truth Brandon Mull
dbe5dbc The quality of death, like that of life, must be of an infinite variety, and if one has already died once, then what was there to look for in dying for good and all, as he was now? life Ray Bradbury
7c751e1 The feel of her own pillow, and of her own blankets reassured her. Both were familiar. And being tired was familiar too, it was a solid bodily ache, like the tiredness after too much jumping or cricket. life tired tiredness Daphne du Maurier
6c9873b Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that. death life recurring-rhythm John Steinbeck
9a46e8f But that's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and worth the doing. life perserverence fahrenheit-451 life-goes-on ray-bradbury mgg Ray Bradbury
a85eb79 Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall. fear hope life eomer sudden J.R.R. Tolkien
091165a In our twenties we have conflicts. We think everything is either-or, black or white: we are caught between them and we lose all our energy in the conflicts. My answer, later on in maturity, was to do them all. Not to exclude any, not to make a choice. I wanted to be everything. And I took everything in, and the more you take in, the more strength you find waiting to accomplish things and to expand your life, instead of the other (which is what we have been taught to do) which is to look for structure and to fear change, above all to fear change. Now I didn't fear change. motivation life Anaïs Nin
59ff758 I don't know Who is cranking; I'm pleased He doesn't stop. life uncertainty Robert A. Heinlein
7aa31bd The song is an unvarnished love shout, an implorement tinged with...anger? Something like anger, but the anger of a philosoher, the anger of a pot. An anger directed at the transience of the world, at its heartbreaking beauty that collides constantly with our awareness of the fact that everything gets taken away, that we're being shown marvels but reminded always that they don't belong to us. They're sultans' treasures; we're lucky, we're expected to feel lucky to have been invited to see them at all. mortality life preciousness life-and-death Michael Cunningham
83bf74c "I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood." "Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?" "How else? Though not till I'm done reading." history reading life George R.R. Martin
0ce5998 "You ought to go to a boy's school sometime. Try it sometime," I said. "It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques." money sex life truth phony honest J.D. Salinger
7895879 Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought to be huge, those of Mars middle-sized, those of Venus very small. Unless it is the same everywhere. There are businessmen, police up there; people trade, fight, dethrone their kings. Some shooting stars suddenly slid past, describing a course in the sky like the parabola of a monstrous rocket. 'My Word,' said Bouvard, 'look at those worlds disappearing.' Pecuchet replied: 'If our world in its turn danced about, the citizens of the stars would be no more impressed than we are now. Ideas like that are rather humbling.' 'What is the point of it all?' 'Perhaps there isn't a point.' 'Yet...' and Pecuchet repeated the word two or three times, without finding anything more to say. earth science life outer-space Gustave Flaubert
e6eee60 "My father once made us," she began, "keep a diary, in two columns; on one side we were to put down in the morning what we thought would be the course and events of the coming day, and at night we were to put down on the other side what really had happened. It would be to some people rather a sad way of telling their lives," (a tear dropped upon my hand at these words) - "I don't mean that mine has been sad, only so very different to what I expected." sadness life musings Elizabeth Gaskell
aeafea5 We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times was till I left, but I guess that's the way of it fun happiness life schooling Ron Rash
b948b50 "As all this suggests our relationship with evidence is seldom purely a cognitive one. Vilifying menstruating women bolstering anti-Muslim stereotypes murdering innocent citizens of Salem plainly evidence is almost always invariably a political social and moral issue as well. To take a particularly stark example consider the case of Albert Speer minister of armaments and war production during the Third Reich close friend to Adolf Hitler and highest-ranking Nazi official to ever express remorse for his actions. In his memoir Inside the Third Reich Speer candidly addressed his failure to look for evidence of what was happening around him. "I did not query a friend who told him not to visit Auschwitz I did not query Himmler I did not query Hitler " he wrote. "I did not speak with personal friends. I did not investigate for I did not want to know what was happening there... for fear of discovering something which might have made me turn away from my course. I had closed my eyes." Judge William Stoughton of Salem Massachusetts became complicit in injustice and murder by accepting evidence that he should have ignored. Albert Speer became complicit by ignoring evidence he should have accepted. Together they show us some of the gravest possible consequences of mismanaging the data around us and the vital importance of learning to manage it better. It is possible to do this: like in the U.S. legal system we as individuals can develop a fairer and more consistent relationship to evidence over time. By indirection Speer himself shows us how to begin. I did not query he wrote. I did not speak. I did not investigate. I closed my eyes. This are sins of omission sins of passivity and they suggest correctly that if we want to improve our relationship with evidence we must take a more active role in how we think must in a sense take the reins of our own minds. To do this we must query and speak and investigate and open our eyes. Specifically and crucially we must learn to actively combat our inductive biases: to deliberately seek out evidence that challenges our beliefs and to take seriously such evidence when we come across it." life sins-of-omission Kathryn Schulz
7126a6a Because life is robust, Because life is bigger than equations, stronger than money, stronger than guns and poison and bad zoning policy, stronger than capitalism, Because Mother Nature bats last, and Mother Ocean is strong, and we live inside our mothers forever, and Life is tenacious and you can never kill it, you can never buy it, So Life is going to dive down into your dark pools, Life is going to explode the enclosures and bring back the commons, O you dark pools of money and law and quantitudinal stupidity, you oversimple algorithms of greed, you desperate simpletons hoping for a story you can understand, Hoping for safety, hoping for cessation of uncertainty, hoping for ownership of volatility, O you poor fearful jerks, Life! Life! Life! Life is going to kick your ass. nature life commons structures-of-power Kim Stanley Robinson
1bc8254 Sometimes one sees things clearly years afterwards than one could possibly at the time. life time-lapse Agatha Christie
114cfeb Energy is the only life and is from the Body and Reason is the bound or outward circumference of Energy. reason life form energy William Blake
50e2bd4 My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it. life eating-disorder-recovery depression-recovery recovery fight Laurie Halse Anderson
fa8a3ae ...no one recognises the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it inspirational-quotes life inspirational Orhan Pamuk
8fcc33a It's like I'd been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death. loss feelings relationship family death life love concern security emotions separation Margaret Peterson Haddix
8072491 "i said to my soul be still and wait so the darkness shall be the light and the stillness life light-and-darkness t.s. eliot
46bb8fc Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell? life Sara Gruen
e34aff9 The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse. life Orhan Pamuk
b140d38 My last chance had vanished into itself like a snail coiling up into his shell. Insidiously I had lost my grip, and now this was it. I thought all this without much emotion. I really didn't care anymore. I couldn't hang on anymore. I didn't have the guts to kill myself, but I didn't want it to continue. I walked a couple of blocks, empty, listless, and wished I could cry. ...The diabolic hope, the purposeful pulsing of blood, the flight into coherence allowed for some rationalizing an afterlife. A new theology was evolving, one that had a faith-in-death clause. It was evolved when I kicked a dead waterbug on the pavement. It was dried out, hollowed, emptied, like some kind of shell. Maybe, I thought, its body is a shell, maybe all bodies are shells. We hatch and die. Our spirit or something like that is the yoke: it lives the real life, the true life. It wasn't comforting. hopelessness life Arthur Nersesian
a1ba6f9 I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments memories living life parents disappointment expectations memory Robin Wasserman
1956874 Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get. death life-lessons life can-get possessive grab jealous zoo tiger Yann Martel
adfff10 The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. emotion life love Yann Martel
c59b5ae The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. life envy Yann Martel
f16ee51 That's the way all life's battles are won.. You don't look at the overall picture. You take one step, then another, and another... until you arrive at your destination. life V.C. Andrews
31c14ba Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply. life Philip Yancey
0a0a631 The pig winks and rolls in the bog. He kicks his legs up and his trotters clack together. The sun is low over the neighbourhood. There is the smell of oncoming night, of pollen settling, the sounds of kids fighting bath time. Lester comes down, waving his hands. Don't drown the pig, Fish. We're saving him for Christmas! We're gonna eat him. No! I'll drink to that, says the pig. Lester stands there. He looks at Fish. He looks at the porker. He peeps over the fence. The pig. The flamin' pig. The pig has just spoken. It's no language that he can understand, but there's no doubt. He feels a little crook, like maybe he should go over to that tree and puke. I like him, Lestah. He talks? Yep. Oh, my gawd. Lester looks at his retarded son again and once more at the pig. The pig talks. I likes him. Yeah, I bet. The pig snuffles, lets off a few syllables: aka sembon itwa. It's tongues, that's what it is. A blasted Pentecostal pig. And you understand him? Yep. I likes him. Always the miracles you don't need. It's not a simple world, Fish. It's not. life Tim Winton
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