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a6432b3 .. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic. work life busy taught remember forget Mitch Albom
d9a94d3 Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them life self-discovery decisions Ann Packer
ad9643d ..I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died.. which I figured was my natural fate. fate happy achieve death life perspective control thought Mitch Albom
2eaabb5 And that would be my method of locomotion, the Lion concluded. Not diplomas earned, but friendships bungled. Campaigns aborted. Errors in judgment and public humiliations. life locomotion journey Gregory Maguire
f2de49c Woe is the natural end of life, yet we go on having babies. death life Gregory Maguire
d1c397f It's been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness. life possibility Gregory Maguire
850782b "Doing this was like wading and then throwing yourself into the lake for the first icy swim, in June. A sickening shock at first, then amazement that you were still moving, lifted up on a stream of steely devotion-- sorrow death life Alice Munro
adad2b2 Esli ty khochesh' pomoch' tvoemu veteranu, izbegai tserkvei, pripisyvaiushchikh zlo potustoronnim silam - naprimer, d'iavolu, soblazniaiushchemu liudei ili vseliaiushchemusia v nikh. Delo, v chastnosti, v tom, chto, predstavliaia sebia zhertvoi vneshnego vozdeistviia (<>), chelovek ne mozhet vyrabotat' zreloi samootsenki, predpolagaiushchei razvitie i obogashchenie ot zhiznennogo opyta. Peishens Meison. <> life Tim O'Brien
45bdb89 "Longfellow smiled. "A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory." life meaning-of-life Matthew Pearl
3f582cc Life is a matter of luck, and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution. -- WWII German U-Boat Commander Eric Topp life luck Robert Kurson
3c4410e Produmyvaia detali, Ueid neozhidanno proniksia novym, ugriumym sochuvstviem k ottsu. Vot, znachit, kak ono bylo. Khodish', delaesh' svoi dela. Nesesh' etu noshu, zamurovyvaesh' sebia v molchanie, priachesh' adskuiu pravdu ot vsekh ostal'nykh i bol'shuiu chast' vremeni ot sebia tozhe. Nikakoi teatral'nosti. Grebesh' sneg, okolachivaesh'sia v politike ili torguesh' v iuvelirnom magazine; periodicheski ishchesh' zabveniia>>, predaesh' nastoiashchee kazhdym vdokhom iz puzyria s prognivshim proshlym. A potom v odin prekrasnyi den' obnaruzhivaesh' bel'evuiu verevku. Izumliaesh'sia. Podtaskivaesh' musornyi bak, vlezaesh' i podtsepliaesh' sebia k vechnosti, slovno vkliuchaesh'sia v elektricheskuiu set'. Ni zapisok, ni skhem - nikakikh ob'iasnenii. V chem iskusstvo i sostoit - iskusstvo ottsa, iskusstvo Keti: velichestvennyi perekhod v oblast' chistoi, vseob'emliushchei Tainy. Ne nado putat', podumal on, absoliutnoe zlo s neschastlivym detstvom. Uznat' - znachit razocharovat'sia. Poniat' - znachit byt' predannym. Vse zhalkie <> i <>, vse nizmennye motivy, vse abstsessy dushi, vse otvratitel'nye melkie urodstva lichnosti i istorii - ne bolee chem rekvizit, kotoryi ty priachesh' do samogo kontsa Pust' publika zavyvaet vo t'me, potriasaet kulakami, pust' odni krichat - Kak? , drugie - Pochemu? suicide life Tim O'Brien
4469757 The afternoon had passed to a ghostly gray. She was struck by the immensity of things, so much water and sky and forest, and after a time it occurred to her that she'd lived a life almost entirely indoors. Her memories were indoor memories, fixed by ceilings and plastered white walls. Her whole life had been locked to geometries: suburban rectangles, city squares. First the house she'd grown up in, then dorms and apartments. The open air had been nothing but a medium of transit, a place for rooms to exist. nature life indoors lake growing-up rooms sky house home thought Tim O'Brien
b574650 The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds; the stagnant air reeked of insecticide. science life revolutionary David Mitchell
2691fb4 The sadness of life. That was another conundrum he would occasionally ponder. sadness life the-only-story Julian Barnes
8978a39 We all know who you are, Mr. Coughlin. Famous Yankee gangster. Friend of the colonel. It would be safer for a man to swim into the middle of the ocean and cut his own throat than to threaten you.' He solemnly made the sign of the cross. 'But when people starve and have nowhere to go, where would you have them end up?' 'Not on my land,' Joe said. 'But it is not your land. It's God's. You are renting it. This rum? This life?' He patted his chest. 'We are all just renting from God. life land-ownership land Dennis Lehane
ebc0b6d Ipak, nije mogla a da se ne zapita zasto muskarac kojeg zeli nije slobodan, a onoga koji to jest ne zeli. I tako se nastavila njezina misija da si zivot pretvori u televizijsku sapunicu. life love duboki-pad istina-boli karin-slaughter životna truth-quotes Karin Slaughter
805d02b I don't believe that death comes at the end of a life. I believe your death was there at your birth with you. It was the unknown presence. Every step of the road of your life that you take, your death is beside you. life inspirational John O'Donohue
8b64c61 One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have reverence always for the immensity that is inside you. life John O'Donohue
729b85a "Mitch," he said, "the culture doesn't encourage you to think about such things until you're about to die. We're so wrapped up in egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks - we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?" encourage life reflect missing think ego die Mitch Albom
f3d0a8c But as I try and understand how life works--and why some people cope better than others with adversity--I come back to something to do with saying yes to life, which is love of life, however inadequate, and love for the self, however found. Not in the me-first way that is the opposite of life and love, but with a salmon-like determination to swim upstream, however choppy upstream is, because this is your stream... coping happiness life love-of-life Jeanette Winterson
3ccb82f A life is sacred or it isn't. We can't adjust what we believe just because it causes us pain. pain life mario-puzo omerta Mario Puzo
ea639a3 Her favourite song was 'God Has Blotted Them Out,' which was meant to be about sins, but really was about anyone who had ever annoyed her, which was everyone. She just didn't like anyone and she just didn't like life. Life was a burden to be carried as far as the grave and then dumped. Life was a Vale of Tears. Life was a pre-death experience. revenge death religion god life misanthropy vengeance Jeanette Winterson
5595150 He told his friends that if they really wanted to help him, they would treat him not with sympathy but with visits, phone calls, a sharing of their problems - the way they had always.. because Morrie had always been a wonderful listener. sympathy life share listen help Mitch Albom
49d4e9b That was the end of his driving.. That was the end of his walking free.. That was the end of his privacy.. And that was the end of his secret. terminal ill change life end disease normal Mitch Albom
f946fc4 .. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure. withdraw humour courage death life cope dignity decision way-of-life Mitch Albom
df900ed In light of this, my visits with Morrie felt like a cleansing rinse of human kindness. We talked about life and we talked about love. We talked about one of Morrie's favourite subjects, compassion and why our society had such a shortage of it. shortage human life love visit society talk kind Mitch Albom
bb52dfa The thing that hunts me now thrives on terror. My terror. I fear he will come for me. I fear he will come for anyone who knows me. fear life christina-dodd virtue-falls thriller suspense Christina Dodd
24787d3 "Oh, God. Not again." Not again? "Do you make a habit of driving into people's houses?" humor life christina-dodd virtue-falls thriller suspense Christina Dodd
0c6bb54 He didn't want to do this... He had come here to hide. life christina-dodd virtue-falls thriller suspense Christina Dodd
2e89a2d Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas. death life depress ideas will Mitch Albom
db5e33c I'm sorry about the screaming. I thought you were him. life christina-dodd virtue-falls thriller nightmare suspense Christina Dodd
cc05127 "You wanted greater things But love forces all of us down And sorrow bows us still harder. They bend us back where we began. Are there not in the hallowed night Also right things? Things that are straight and true? So I learned. For never, as mortal teachers do, Have you, my deities, Upholders of all things Led me with caution On level pathways. The gods say to humans, "Taste everything And learn by that nourishment To give thanks for all things And know what it is to be free to quit And go where you like." opportunity joy spirituality optimism life Friedrich Hölderlin
9815dc3 I mean, I tried to change, I did, everybody tries to change, Michael. Not just the queerboys. You look in the mirror and all you see is what's wrong, I'm not _this_ enough or I'm not _that_ enough, and you spend your whole life trying to fix yourself, because you just want to be okay inside your head, you know? I know you know this, Michael, that's why you're here. You're looking for the fix. Yeah, that's why they call it a fix. Because you think you're broken. Only you're not--that broken feeling? That's normal. That's how you know you're normal. If you're not feeling it, you really are broken, that's the joke life fix normal David Gerrold
87fc1ea It's not what you get in life that will make you whole, but what you give. life wholeness Robyn Carr
e66083c Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair. ill life wheelchair dignity help Mitch Albom
68dd477 But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time - and the reason - to do that. ill time reason life important think end dying Mitch Albom
ad3ea78 The world had opened out and so had the universe, or what she since had thought must have been the universe, lying all spread out before her, with ever nook revealed, with all the knowledge, all the reasons there - a universe in which time and space had been ruled out because time and space were only put there, in the first place, to make it impossible for anyone to grasp the universe. Seen for a moment, half-sensed, a flash of insight that had been gone before there had been time for it to register on her brain, sensed and known for an instant only and then gone so quickly that it had left impression only, no certain memory and no solid knowledge, but impressions only, like a face seen in a lightning flash and then the darkness closing in, life insight Clifford D. Simak
9a9132e I will say to you what I have said to others: Blessed Elua cared naught for crowns or thrones. It is a human game, a mortal game. I imagine you will say it was not worth the cost of innocent blood spilled in the process, since it is what Phedre no Delaunay once said to me. Mayhap it is true. And yet, countless numbers of those she would deem innocent never hesitated to engage in a death-struggle for these things, these mortal tokens of power. What does it mean to be innocent? It is impossible to move through this life without making choices that injure others. My choices were bolder than others'; and yet. If they had not chosen as they did, they would not have suffered for it. We are all driven by desires, some simple and some complex. In the end, we all make choices. In the end, no one is truly innocent. life Jacqueline Carey
b2befca "But one thing was quite clear..." he wrote. "[B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time." Bloom went on to become a congressman and one of the crafters of the charter that founded the United Nations." wealth life poor Erik Larson
8612093 I was out on a lonely road that stretched forever into the darkness. I wanted to run, to get away from him, but it was so dark, I was afraid of where I was going. fear darkness life christina-dodd virtue-falls thriller lonely suspense Christina Dodd
0c77514 "Every person's life is of importance to himself, of course: ... But in the universe of infinite space and time, it is insignificant. ... Perhaps Carl Becker, the historian, and one of the most civilized men I ever knew, grasped best our piddling place in the infinite. Man [he wrote] is but a foundling in the cosmos, abandoned by the forces that created him. Unparented, unassisted and undirected by omniscient or benevolent authority, he must fend for himself, and with the aid of his own limited intelligence find his way about in an indifferent universe. And in a rather savage world! The longer I lived and the more I observed, the clearer it became to me that man had progressed very little beyond his earlier savage state. After twenty million years or so of human life on this Earth, the lot of most men and women is, as Hobbes said, "nasty, brutish, and short." Civilization is a thin veneer. It is so easily and continually eroded or cracked, leaving human beings exposed for what they are: savages. What good three thousand years of so-called civilization, of religion, philosophy, and education, when ... men go on torturing, killing and repressing their fellowmen?" humanity life William L. Shirer
34ac4f8 And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with. pain life Mike Carey
561fa40 The Line welcomed rain and sun. Seeds germinated in mass graves, between skulls and femurs and broken pick handles, tendrils rose up alongside dog spikes and clavicles, thrust around teak sleepers and tibias, scapulas, vertebrae, fibulas and femurs. war life dying Richard Flanagan
6fd863b At times, circumstances conspire to make us believe the lies we tell ourselves. Everything- the weather, the season, the fall of light- sets the stage for our play; we find ourselves, instead of acting, becoming the characters, moving into a reality in which we're inseparable from our roles. life circumstances Julie Orringer
6e05e7b "A wrestling match.. Yes, you could describe life that way." So which side wins, I ask? He smiles at me, the crinkled eyes, the crooked teeth. "Love wins. Love always wins." tug-of-war wrestle live life love win Mitch Albom
2b1950a "One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself. "Have I told you about the tension of opposites?" he says. "Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle." pull live life opposites tension Mitch Albom
dbc1b0f Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting. life Kim Stanley Robinson
defd5ec "So who else did you convince?" "Well, I got Joe to potty train himself, and then I convinced Anna to leave the kids at home and go with me on a vacation to Jamaica." funny dreams life boldness Kim Stanley Robinson
100d603 She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create. life colum-mccann let-the-great-world-spin Colum McCann
eea680c The Creator puts life into motion, and doesn't just sit around all day moving each and every piece this way and that on his whims. If life was just one gigantic board game, God isn't the banker or the leader, or even a collection of all the players. God is just the one who invented the game. You can be pissed all you want when something awful or even evil happens during the game, but you have no right to go and sue Milton Bradley. god life Sean Patrick Brennan
563ff6d "The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. His voice dropped to a whisper. "Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act." enter life love give receive rational wise soft important Mitch Albom
4a8b2a4 And beauty is terror,' said Julian, 'then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?' 'To live,' said Camilla. 'To live forever,' said Bunny, chin cupped in palm. life Donna Tartt
8ab48db Pain prompts us to face who we are and where we are. What we do with that experience defines who we become. success life John C. Maxwell
c5009d6 Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's a constant pressure, pushing toward pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call viriditas, and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see. ... And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe--its culmination, like the color of a flower at first bloom on a wet morning. It's a holy feeling, and our task in this world is to do everything we can to foster it. nature life viriditas cosmos patterns Kim Stanley Robinson
f262576 The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself. life gratefulness David Guterson
6515ac9 Meanwhile, the great ash would rest where she lay, and mosses would creep over her trunk, and tiny creatures make their homes her dim hollows. Even in death she was a link in the great chain of the forest's being. earth life fantasy-fiction Juliet Marillier
fdffac1 "The culture we have does not make people feel ood about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it." -Morrie-" life Mitch Albom
4860021 Most people seem to turn off at some point in their lives. Maybe it's thirty or forty. For most people it's lots younger. They stop there. Stop growing or changing or learning or something. From that point on they're dead. life banality happy-thoughts compromise Katherine Dunn
5039ad9 Where have i=I read that at the end, when life, surface upon surface, has become completely encrusted with experience, you know everything, the secret, the power, and the glory, why you were born, why you are dying, and how it all could have been different? You are wise. But the greatest wisdom, at that moment, is knowing that your wisdom is too late. You understand everything when there is no longer anything to understand. life philosophy wisdom Umberto Eco
b14dec1 I believe it's never too late to change. I'm eighty-one years old, but I still think I can be a better person tomorrow than I am today. And that's what I'll believe until I run out of tomorrows. life Carl Hiaasen
2621213 - Ain't no one ever told you yet? I recon I thought you've all figured out. - What? - That all this stuff about happy-endings is lies. The only ending in this world is death. life happy-ending Katherine Paterson
92d2ccf Everyone dies, Dwahvel [...] It is how one lives that matters. -Artemis Entreri life-lessons life R.A. Salvatore
ea5ed26 "R.I.P. Jerry Lewis laughter god life jerry jerry-lewis lewis r-i-p chance laugh Anthony T.Hincks
899eef4 "Tell yourselves whatever you'd like, but I'm afraid it doesn't make it true," Mearth sighed, beginning to look impatient. "Step aside Mandy, I have to remediate him, otherwise you'll find yourself in a whole mess of trouble." "You can't do this, it's wrong," Mandy insisted. "You don't have a choice, Mandy! Either you let his life compromise the lives of everybody else in the world, or you let me remediate him and get it over with," Mearth icily declared. "...Do what she says, Mandy Valems...." Alecto added, standing up and staring with glazed eyes at Mearth. "I can't," said Mandy. "...Go away!" Alecto shouted at her suddenly, glaring with narrowed eyes, speaking in a voice that hardly sounded like his own. "Get out of here, Mandy Valems! I hate you, I want you to leave me alone! Go home and don't ever come back here!" "I...." Mandy started, looking totally shocked. "I said I hate you, don't you understand anything? Go away, get out of here!" Alecto repeated menacingly, stepping forward in a threatening manner. He looked like a mad dog, shivering as he chased her away from his site. She tearfully took off running, seeming both shocked and horrified, and he watched her leave for a moment with a blank expression, his dark eyes hollow. He looked like he was going to black out, but Mearth walked quickly towards him, for once not smiling at all. If it weren't for her eyes, she would've looked like a person. "That was very cruel of you to do, Sydney Tar Ponds. I thought you loved her," she disappointedly exclaimed. "I do love her, she's my friend, and that's why I said that stuff to her," Alecto replied forlornly. "None of it's true, I don't hate her at all... but I know what's going to happen and I don't want her to see it, so I lied to her and told her I hated her... can you explain to her after... why I said all that to her?" illness earth grief loss depression faith death friendship hope life love nova-scotia environment rescue pollution help dog dying Rebecca McNutt
988eb60 "Remember!" she called, as she followed him up the narrow ladders towards the bridge. "It is only a matter of scale and experience. You are not a fraction of the whole. You are a version of the whole! Time will seem to eddy and stall. This is scale. Everything is sentient, but scale alters perception. The time of a tree is not your time." It was as if she shouted to him all she had meant to teach him before this moment. "To the snail the foot which comes from nowhere and crushes him is as natural a disaster as a hurricane; it cannot be appealed to and is impossible to anticipate. The time of a star is not our time. Equity is the natural condition of the multiverse. There are things to fear in the colour fields, but not the fields themselves! Remember, Sam, we are God in miniature!" faith religion god life philosophy Michael Moorcock
4cae86a If you got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it, flaunt it. life truth Mindy Kaling
0757d45 Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants. mortality life temporality impermanence Ruth Ozeki
ae12650 cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life. life-quotes life-lessons life cause-and-effect cliche cause effect result life-philosophy Robin Wasserman
afdd655 Life was a series of complicated tactical exercises, as complicated as the alignments at Waterloo, thought out on a brass bedstead among the crumbs of sausage roll. [p107] life Graham Greene
71952ec sn wn chyzy nyst khh adm drh, wnh khh adm Hs my khnh. life Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
2c560b5 Death is certain. Life is always changing, like a puff of wind in the air, or a wave in the sea, or even a thought in the mind. life uncertainty Ruth Ozeki
53bcdef Dziko Iasutani, monakhinia dzen, skazala mne kak-to vo sne, chto nel'zia poniat', chto znachit zhit' na etoi zemle, poka ne poimesh', chto takoe vremennoe sushchestvo, a poniat', chto takoe vremennoe sushchestvo, mozhno, esli poniat', chto takoe moment. Vo sne ia sprosila ee: Potom ia reshila proverit', i okazalos', chto imenno eto chislo nazyvaet uchitel' Dogen v svoem glavnom trude -- <> (<>). Tsifry soprotivliaiutsia glazu, tak chto, s tvoego razresheniia, ia napishu eto slovami: shest' milliardov chetyresta millionov devianosto deviat' tysiach deviat'sot vosem'desiat. Imenno stol'ko momentov, po utverzhdeniiu uchitelia Dogena, soderzhitsia v odnom dne, i, vypaliv eto chislo, starushka Dziko shchelknula pal'tsami. Pal'tsy u nee uzhasno krivye, perekruchennye artritom, tak chto shchelchki poluchaiutsia ne slishkom khorosho, no donesti nuzhnyi smysl ei vse-taki udalos'. skazala ona. Granuliarnost' prirody vremeni s tochki zreniia dzen stanovitsia ochevidna, esli proizvesti nekhitrye vychisleniia, ili mozhno prosto poverit' Dziko na slovo. Ona naklonilas' vpered, popravila na nosu ochki v chernoi oprave i, vnimatel'no gliadia skvoz' mutnye tolstye stekla, zagovorila opiat'. Ona vnov' opustilas' na piatki i kivnula. Predlozhennyi eiu myslennyi eksperiment byl dovol'no chudnym, no bylo iasno, chto ona imela v vidu. Vo Vselennoi vse postoianno meniaetsia, i nichto ne ostaetsia prezhnim, i my dolzhny ponimat', naskol'ko bystro techet vremia, esli khotim probudit'sia i po-nastoiashchemu prozhit' svoi zhizni. life Ruth Ozeki
9279377 It is enough for me to know that I left something of beauty behind and that it has thrived. I am content. life Alan Brennert
c1740eb "What's the advantage of fear or the benefit of regret or the bonus of granting misery a foothold even if death is embracing you? My old abbot used to say, "Life is only precious if you wish it to be." I look at it like the last bite of a wonderful meal. Do you enjoy it, or does the knowledge that there is no more to follow make it so bitter that you would ruin the experience?" life Michael J. Sullivan
c8d6d5c It makes me wonder now, in middle age, if being spontaneous and kind and curious are all parts of our natural ability to swim. life-energy inspiration life Mark Nepo
44b8786 [39] life Ruth Ozeki
4e603cf There came a time, however, when death ceased to be the enforcer of finitude and began to look, instead, like the last opportunity for radical transformation, the only plausible portal to the infinite. life Jonathan Franzen
c91dd9b Clearly, binary outcomes are not very prevalent in life; they mostly exist in laboratory experiments and in research papers. In life, payoffs are usually open-ended, or, at least, variable. life laboratory-experiments open-ended payoffs research-papers variable Nassim Nicholas Taleb
f936b4b The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self- reliant and totally self- sufficient. It is perfect. universe inspiration life inspirational metaphysics perfect quotes Chris Prentiss
e80fc52 Each of us is different and has different needs. In addition, our needs change over the course of our relationship. When you are committed to an enduring relationship with someone, you aren't simply concerned about having your needs met. You also go out of your way to care for your loved one, being aware of and adaptable to their changing needs. relationships inspiration life love the-laws-of-love chris-prentiss self-help Chris Prentiss
dd2b6fd Life's tempering and altering process often takes the form of adversity, and, as far as outward appearances are concerned, seems to be working against us when it is actually working for us. relationships inspiration life love the-laws-of-love Chris Prentiss
a564b72 Imenno v etoi glave on khvalit molodykh monakhov za uporstvo na puti k probuzhdeniiu i ob'iasniaet granuliarnuiu prirodu vremeni: 6 400 099 980 momentov sostavliaiut odin den'. Tsel' ego rassuzhdenii -- pokazat', chto kazhdyi iz etikh momentov daet vozmozhnost' dlia voleiz'iavleniia. Dazhe shchelchok pal'tsami, govorit on, predostavliaet nam shest'desiat shest' vozmozhnostei dlia probuzhdeniia i vybora deistvii, kotorye sozdadut nam blagopriiatnuiu karmu i vozmozhnost' izmenit' zhizn'. life Ruth Ozeki
29c9372 Life is like a river: nothing is ever the same, even for an instant. relationships life the-laws-of-love self-help Chris Prentiss
26429f3 By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life. inspiration life philosophy inspirational non-12-step passages-ventura passages-malibu chris-prentiss quotes perception Chris Prentiss
12a34ba Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be. inspiration inspirational-quotes life passages-ventura passages-malibu perception Chris Prentiss
6432e34 If who you are and what you have is what you want, that's perfect. Keep doing what you've been doing and you'll get more of it. inspiration happiness life passages-ventura passages-malibu quotes Chris Prentiss
2abc26b "Semua itu sudah tertulis di lauhil Mahfud, kita tinggal memerankan saja apa yg tertulis disana, jadi apa susahnya menjalani.Ibarat novel, kita tidak usah pusing-pusing gimana caranya bikin novel sherlock holmes yg banyak penggemarnya. Kita tinggal baca aja, gampang kan? Dan kalau bab 1 kita bacanya udah selesai kita lanjut ke bab 2 yg kasus2nya pastinya tidak kalah seru. Bahkan ketika Sir Arthur Conan Doyle membuat Sherlock Holmes mati ditengah keseruannya, banyak penggemar yang mengecam sang pembuat novel tersebut, mereka menghujani ribuan surat kepada Conan untuk menghidupkan kembali tokoh idaman mereka-Sherlock Holmes. Dan akhirnya Sherlock Holmes dihidupkan kembali oleh authornya. Lalu penggemarpun bertambah banyak dan memuji hasil life strong Vea Dreamer
a275991 Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing. depression inspiration positive-thinking life non-12-step passages-ventura passages-malibu emotions stress quotes Chris Prentiss
7bba75a Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own. life purpose stories Lois Lowry
e114db8 That's why baseball is more like life than other games. Sometimes I feel like that's all I do in life, keep track of my errors. life Michael Chabon
942ac09 "Everything always changes," he said quietly. "And you wake up one day and don't recognize the life you had before you went to sleep." life T.J. Klune
a05821c From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the most. She was the force around which our world turned. Unlike our father, who spent his life in the clouds, my mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all of our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdrom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos. motherhood life chaos growing-up parents mother father Nicole Krauss
4cbbc26 At a certain point he learned the smarter play was to avoid the things that brought you low. depression sadness life Colson Whitehead
cf57ab3 In your diary, you quoted old Jiko saying something about not-knowing, how not-knowing is the most intimate way, or did I just dream that? Anyway, I've been thinking about this a lot, and I think maybe it's true, even though I don't really like uncertainty. I'd much rather 'know', but then again, not-knowing keeps all the possibilities open. It keeps all the worlds alive. life not-knowing possibilities uncertainty Ruth Ozeki
8272e60 Quote by Robert, a garcon who accepted a 'fat envelope' to leave the Balzar: Anyway it is only in moments of crisis that we find lucidity about ourselves--though only after the crisis is over. Still, that's enough lucidity for anyone. Anyway, it is all the lucidity that life will give you. The crucial thing is that is was _our choice._ We made it. We _chose_ to leave. /293 life lucidity crisis Adam Gopnik
6982569 Suitsid -- eto ochen' glubokaia tema, no poskol'ku Vam interesno, ia postaraius' poiasnit' dlia Vas moi soobrazheniia. Na protiazhenii vsei svoei istorii my, iapontsy, s uvazheniem otnosilis' k suitsidu. Dlia nas eto iavlenie krasoty, navechno pridaiushchee smysl, i formu, i chest' nashei zhizni. Eto sposob soobshchit' maksimal'nuiu real'nost' oshchushcheniiu, chto my zhivy. Mnogie tysiachi let eto nasha traditsiia. Potomu chto, vidite li, eto chuvstvo, chto my zhivy, ne tak legko ispytat'. Nesmotria na to chto zhizn' -- eto veshch', kotoraia, kazhetsia, imeet nekuiu formu i ves, eto ne bolee chem illiuziia. Nashe oshchushchenie zhizni ne imeet real'nykh granits, ne priviazano ni k chemu. Tak chto my, iapontsy, govorim, chto nasha zhizn' inogda kazhetsia nereal'noi, kak son. Smert' -- eto opredelennost': vse my -- smertniki. Zhizn' postoianno meniaetsia, kak dunovenie vetra v vozdukhe, ili volna v more, ili dazhe mysl' v soznanii. Potomu sovershit' samoubiistvo -- eto vse ravno, chto nashchupat' granitsu zhizni. Samoubiistvo ostanavlivaet zhizn' vo vremeni, tak chto my mozhem opredelit' ee formu i prochuvstvovat' ee real'nost', pust' i na mgnovenie. Eto popytka vychlenit' nechto nastoiashchee i oshchutimoe iz potoka zhizni, kotoryi postoianno meniaetsia. suicide life Ruth Ozeki
47b80d0 To a life of quiet desperation... and not leading it. wealth freedom life witty quiet desperation Rebecca McNutt
c75f499 (...) 6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around. time opportunities life inspirational desicions will choices Ruth Ozeki
b8e6c9f But my mother wanted her children to be educated by nuns and priests all dressed in black, the way it had been done down through the generations with her people. Taught by people who had a firm grasp of how big and awful the world could be. religion life parochial-schools religious-education nuns schools priests Edward P. Jones
4f96d0c Ia govoril o bespoleznosti iskusstva, no nichego ne skazal o tom oblegchenii, kotoroe ono sposobno prinesti. Uteshenie, kotoroe ia nakhozhu v takogo roda rabote uma i serdtsa, sostoit v sleduiushchem: tol'ko , v molchanii khudozhnika ili pisatelia, real'nost' mozhno perestroit', pererabotat' i zastavit' povernut'sia znachimoi storonoi. Obychnye nashi postupki sut' ne chto inoe kak deriuga, pod kotoroi sokryto zlatotkanoe pokryvalo -- istochnik znachenii. Nas, khudozhnikov, zdes' ozhidaet schastlivaia vozmozhnost' primirit'sia posredstvom iskusstva so vsem, chto ranilo i unizhalo nas v obydennoi zhizni, i ne bezhat' ot sud'by, kak pytaiutsia delat' obychnye liudi, no zastavit' ee prolit'sia istinnym zhivym dozhdem -- voobrazheniem. Inache zachem by my muchili drug druga? life Lawrence Durrell
26984ba "No respecter of evidence has ever found the least clue as to what life is all about, and what people should do with it. Oh, there have been lots of brilliant guesses. But honest, educated people have to identify with them as such--as guesses. What are guesses worth? Scientifically and legally, they are not worth doodley-squat. As the saying goes: "Your guess is as good as mine." The guesses we like best, as with so many things we like best, were taught to us in childhood--by people who loved us and wished us well. We are reluctant to criticize those guesses. It is an ultimate act of rudeness to find fault with anything which is given to us in a spirit of love. So a modern, secular education is often painful. By its very nature, it invites us to question the wisdom of the ones we love. Too bad. I have said that one guess is as good as another, but that is only roughly so. Some guesses are crueler than others--which is to say, harder on human beings, and on other animals as well. The belief that God wants heretics burned to death is a case in point. Some guesses are more suicidal than others. The belief that a true lover of God is immune to the bites of copperheads and rattlesnakes is a case in point. Some guesses are greedier and more egocentric than others. Belief in the divine right of kings and presidents is a case in point. Those are all discredited guesses. But it is reasonable to suppose that other bad guesses are poisoning our lives today. A good education in skepticism can help us to discover those bad guesses, and to destroy them with mockery and contempt. Most of them were made by honest, decent people who had no way of knowing what we know, or what we can find out, if we want to. We have one hell of a lot of good information about our bodies, about our planet, and the universe--about our past. We don't have to guess as much as the old folks did. Bertrand Russell declared that, in case he met God, he would say to Him, "Sir, you did not give us enough information." I would add to that, "All the same, Sir, I'm not persuaded that we did the best we could with the information we had. Toward the end there, anyway, we had tons of information." secular-education life wisdom theories meaning-of-life skepticism Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
7f8ebbb Ia ZhERTVA TsEPI NESChASTNYKh SLUChAINOSTEI, KAK I VSE MY. life Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
abd302c Vi rendete conto che tutta la grande letteratura - Moby Dick, Huckleberry Finn, Addio alle armi, La lettera scarlatta, Il segno rosso del coraggio, l' Iliade e l' Odissea, Delitto e castigo, la Bibbia e The Charge of the Light Brigade di Tennyson - parla di che fregatura sia la vita degli esseri umani? (Non e liberatorio che qualcuno lo dica chiaro e tondo?) literature life inspirational Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4735021 During that time, The Mouth came by to pray with us, and my dad began to spend his evenings sitting in the yellow lawn chair and staring at the highway, or down in the basement with his isotope material, finding comfort in the stability that's created from decay. loss life love Miriam Toews
91da91d Sometimes, when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can. life Mitch Albom
b17282c Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. life Mitch Albom
2e3fd39 People scooped up these tabloids, devoured their gossip.. But now, for some reason, I found myself thinking about Morrie whenever I read anything silly or mindless. I kept picturing him there, in the house with the Japanese maple.. counting his breath, squeezing out every moment with his loved ones, while I spent so many hours on things that meant absolutely nothing to me personally. senseless ill live life love quality moment gossip Mitch Albom
66d6f11 I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, or walk; Morrie, who could no longer answer his own door, dry himself after a shower, or even roll over in bed. How could he be so accepting? I watched him struggle with a fork, picking at a piece of tomato, missing it the first two times - a pathetic scene, and yet I could not deny that sitting in his presence was almost magically serene, the same calm breeze that soothed me back in college. ill struggle live past life presence pity dying Mitch Albom
4c888e0 I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that? ill live death life love dying Mitch Albom
b80c457 I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like me. .. My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied. What happened to me? time work change life unsatisfied Mitch Albom
dbd4efd Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..What happened to me? I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places. money live thoughts idealism work life ideas young Mitch Albom
f1f0324 Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places. live thoughts idealism work life ideas young university Mitch Albom
6dfa1d4 What happened to me? I asked myself. Morris's high, smoky voice took me back to my university years, when I thought rich people were evil, a shirt and tie were prison clothes, and life without freedom to get up and go - motorcycle beneath you, breeze in your face, down the streets of Paris, into the mountains of Tibet - was not a good life at all. What happened to me? travel free life ideal young thought Mitch Albom
fede91b And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a 'living funeral'. Each of them spoke and paid tribute.. Some cried. Some laughed. One woman read a poem: 'My dear and loving cousin.. Your ageless heart as you move through time, layer on layer, tender sequoia..' .. And all the heartfelt things we never get to say to those we love, Morrie said that day. living-funeral death life love share celebrate Mitch Albom
64bf831 What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it. death life funeral tribute Mitch Albom
352fd44 There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live..' 'So far, I've been able to do it. Will I be able to continue? I don't know. But I'm betting on myself I will.' Koppel seemed extremely taken with Morrie. He asked about the humility that death induced. live choice death life bitter mourn cry decision humility Mitch Albom
c38fe72 Tata coboara masuta, scoate fotografia mamei din buzunar, o aseaza pe masa, cu fata la fereastra. Isi lasa scaunul pe spate si privesc amandoi marea nesfarsita de norisori albi care dispar sub noi, fara sa mai scoata un cuvant tot restul zborului. life love Cecelia Ahern
029a897 A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip. life watch final learn Mitch Albom
d46715e "... "The world is afflicted with death and decay, therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world," says an old Buddhist teaching. In other words: Get used to it." world death life the-wise teaching Elizabeth Gilbert
59bbf42 "Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself." -" -- life wise-men Elizabeth Gilbert
0ebfa7e So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social nature and fully embrace my inner Key Hostess - only then could I become The Quiet Girl in the Back of the Temple, after all? irony life Elizabeth Gilbert
c0368c2 Your body - every body is a marvel. A wonder of creation. [...] The day you first opened your eyes, Anna, God asked just one thing: that you live. life Emma Donoghue
bb4957a This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down. We all need such places of ritual safekeeping. joy spirituality life rituals Elizabeth Gilbert
a1615f1 We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands. mortality god life Elizabeth Gilbert
4af6496 ... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish... life love pleasure Elizabeth Gilbert
6612c36 ... the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity. life pleasure Elizabeth Gilbert
ac5aeb9 Life, if you keep chasing it so hard, will drive you to death. Time - when pursued like bandit - will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping out the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you. At some point you have to stop because it won't. You have to admit that you can't catch it. At some point, as Richard keeps telling me, you gotta let go and sit still and allow contentment to come to you. time life Elizabeth Gilbert
cbbf16d "Had it not been for "Nightline," Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy." ill death life workaholic excuse friend Mitch Albom
6acf21f ... bel far niente has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either. There's another wonderful Italian expression: l'arte d'arrangiarsi - the art of making something out of nothing. The art of turning a few simple ingredients into a feast, or a few gathered friends into a festival. Anyone with a talent for happiness can do this, not only the rich. happiness life richness Elizabeth Gilbert
23d8367 I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline. work life pace fast workaholic Mitch Albom
7c21a26 Pero las ilusiones son como las telaranas, que son muy faciles de deshacer, y en seguida volvia a la realidad. ?Y donde estaba la felicidad? ?En los ayeres? ?En los mananas? No, ciertamente en esta hora, en este minuto, en este segundo. Solo teniamos una cosa, una tan solo, que nos diese una chispita de alegria: la esperanza. hope life V.C. Andrews
1fe2b25 But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pieces of the eternal picture at any given time? And that maybe if we could collect those pieces and compare them, a story about God would begin to emerge that resembles and includes everyone? And isn't our individual longing for transcendence all just part of this larger human search for divinity? Don't we each have the right to not stop seeking until we get as close to the source of wonder as possible? Even if it means coming to India and kissing trees in the moonlight for a while? spirituality life infinity Elizabeth Gilbert
c54ad9f The spirit and soul are the body and brain, which are destructible-that is precisely why they are so precious. thoughts spirit inspirational-quotes living life-lessons life wisdom inspirational surviving-life people-of-color wise-words soul-searching security thoughtful survival soul Ta-Nehisi Coates
86f2213 After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough. No more playing music at half-empty night clubs. No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear. time life urgency precious perspective funeral Mitch Albom
ca67019 The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me. struggle graduate world life fresh young Mitch Albom
4180e0c The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. words pain life Elizabeth Gilbert
1c1a2cf Yalnizca kisa bir sure, bir an icin bu aci dizlerimin bagini oyle cozdu ki, nefessiz, cansiz ve sanki olecekmis gibi bir duyguyla o banka yigilip kaldim. Ama dedigim gibi butun acilar korkaktir, yasama karsi duyulan asiri arzu karsisinda aci geriler; cunku yasama arzusu, dusuncelerimizde var olan olum arzusundan cok daha guclu sekilde bedenimizin her zerresinde mevcuttur. pain suffering life Stefan Zweig
9958679 Farkli hisseden, farkli hassasiyetlere sahip ve farkindaligi guclenmis baska bir insan haline geldigimi biliyorum. Daha iyi bir insan oldugumu iddia edecek cesaretim yok elbette, ama daha mutlu bir insan oldugumu biliyorum, cunku o buz gibi donuk hayatim icin yeni bir anlam buldum, yasamin kendisinden baska bir sozcukle aciklayamayacagim bir anlam. Ait oldugum kesimin normlarini ve kaliplarini bos buldugum icin artik ne kendimden ne de baskalarindan utaniyorum. Onur, suc, gunah gibi kavramlar bir anda soguk, metalsi bir tini kazandi, bunlari dehsete kapilmadan telaffuz edemiyorum artik. life-lessons happiness life honour guilt sin Stefan Zweig
7ed737e I confess to sudden rages. Walking in Midtown, rush hour's peak, people streaming in both directions, I find myself seething, ready to kill. Who are all these fucking people, and how is it fair, how is it even possible that all of them, these perfectly ordinary people, should be alive, when -- mourning rage grief loss death life Sigrid Nunez
c7191ab What exactly did Simone Weil mean when she said, When you have to make a decision in life, about what you should do, do what will cost you the most. Do what is difficult because it is difficult. Do what will cost you the most. Who these people? life difficulty implications decisions Sigrid Nunez
50f8f3d "I asked, "You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since heaven and hell - the destinations - are the same thing anyway?" "Same - same," he said. "Same in end, so better to be happy on journey." I said, "So, if heaven is love, then hell is..." "Love, too," he said." spirituality life philosophy hell Elizabeth Gilbert
631cc55 Ru Guo Cong Wei Xiao De Xi Jie Guan Kan Sheng Ming ,Jiu Hui Fa Xian Ta Duo Mo Huang Miu . Jiu Hao Xiang Yong Xian Wei Jing Guan Cha Yi Di Shui ,Fa Xian Qi Zhong Ji Man Liao Dan Xi Bao Sheng Wu ,Wo Men Hui Chao Xiao Zhe Xie Sheng Wu Ru Ci Ji Qie De Ben Mang , Bi Ci Zheng Dou . Ke Shi ,Ren Lei Zai Duan Zan De Yi Sheng Zhong ,Ye Shi You Zhe Zhong Ke Pa De Huo Dong Xing Cheng Ke Xiao De Jie Guo . life Irvin D. Yalom
8d560a7 A lot of who you were in middle age was determined before you had a chance to manipulate, control, or eve understand the things around you. It was no mystery, he thought, why some old people's minds returned to their youth; the wonder of those years, the discoveries, the first experience with the dirty secret of death, and the first stirrings of lust and love were indelible, drawn in luminous colors on clean canvas. Indeed, the first sex act was so mind-boggling that most people could still remember it clearly twenty, thirty, sixty years later. sex romance science humor life love wisdom inspirational old lust Nelson DeMille
39275d2 And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a 'living funeral'. Each of them spoke and paid tribute.. Some cried. Some laughed. One woman read a poem: 'My dear and loving cousin.. Your ageless heart as you ,love through time, layer on layer, tender sequoia..' .. And all the heartfelt things we never get to say to those we love, Morrie said that day. living-funeral living death life funeral tribute Mitch Albom
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