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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
ef52db0 There's a chance that I'm not here at all, that all the parts of me, running along all the choices I did and didn't make, for a moment brush against each other. That I am still an evangelist in the North, as well as the person who ran away. Perhaps for a while these two selves have been confused. I have not gone forward or back in time, but across in time, to something I might have been, playing itself out. life Jeanette Winterson
ac2d7d9 L'ansia e la ruggine dell'anima. life Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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. cause cause-and-effect cliche effect life life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes result Robin Wasserman
b17282c Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live. life Mitch Albom
8886b13 His new life required no great change in the patterns of his behaviour. It was merely an adjustment. He had always known how to make himself invisible. change choices-in-life life Christopher Fowler
792b85f Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music. bel-canto life music Ann Patchett
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 fantasy-fiction life Juliet Marillier
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." hell life philosophy spirituality Elizabeth Gilbert
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. christina-dodd darkness fear life lonely suspense thriller virtue-falls Christina Dodd
ade202d "Der Glaube an Gott ist ein Sichoffnen, ein Loslassen, ein tiefes Vertrauen, eine bedingungslose Liebe - aber manchmal war es so schwer zu lieben. Manchmal sank mein Herz vor Wut, Verzagtheit und Erschopfung so tief, dass ich befurchtete, es wurde bis ganz hinab auf den Grund des Pazifiks sinken und ich wurde es nie wieder heraufziehen konnen. In solchen Augenblicken versuchte ich mir Mut zu machen. Ich fasste mir an den Turban, den ich mir aus den Uberresten meines Hemds gewunden hatte und rief: ,,DAS IST GOTTES HUT!" Ich fuhr mir uber meine Hosen und rief: ,,DAS SIND GOTTES KLEIDER!" Ich wies auf Richard Parker und rief: ,,DAS IST GOTTES KATZE!" Ich wies auf das Rettungsboot und rief: ,,DAS IST GOTTES ARCHE!" Ich breitete meine Arme weit und rief: ,,DAS SIND DIE GOTTLICHEN GEFILDE!" Ich hob den Finger zum Himmel und rief: ,,DAS IST GOTTES OHR!" Auf diese Weise rief ich mir ins Gedachtnis, was die Schopfung war und wo ich meinen Platz darin hatte." life Yann Martel
fea3d11 Because when a man tries to realize himself through the gifts with which nature has endowed him, he does the best and only meaningful thing he can do. That's why, in former days, I often said to you: don't try to imitate the thinker or the ascetic man, but be yourself, try to be yourself. life purpose Hermann Hesse
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
b6446ed I worry about everything all day long and half the night. I worry about things you never heard of. life worry-quotes John D. MacDonald
f13c7e5 I don't know, maybe your experience differed from mine. For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking life millenial millenial-leader millenials twenty-first-century Ernest Cline
b63582a But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible. death feelings human human-beings life love meditation power silence thoughts worries years Jhumpa Lahiri
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-- death life sorrow Alice Munro
b61ef8f It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game. life love olympics running Jennifer Weiner
64bf831 What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it. death funeral life tribute Mitch Albom
af6d980 Tova e edva nachaloto, za da postignesh kakvoto i da bilo v zhivota. Prirodnata darba e kato silata na edin atlet. Chovek mozhe da se rodi s poveche ili po-malko sposobnosti, no vse pak nikoi ne stava atlet samo zashchoto se e rodil visok, silen ili b'rz. Trud't, opit't i tekhnikata - te sa tezi, koito s'zdavat atleta ili choveka na izkustvoto. Umeniiata, s koito idvash na bial sviat, sa prosto boepripasi. Za da postignesh neshcho s tiakh, e nuzhno da prev'rnesh uma si v tochno or'die. life the-angel-s-game zafon Carlos Ruiz Zafón
7a68661 You only get one life, Luna. One stab at this thing called happiness. Why deprive yourself of things you want just because they weren't given to you the way you hoped for them to come? knight-cole life love luna-rexroth L.J. Shen
b5876f8 All summers take me back to the sea. There in the long eelgrass, like birds' eggs waiting to be hatched, my brothers and sister and I sit, grasses higher than our heads, arms and legs like thicker versions of the grass waving in the wind, looking up at the blue sky. My mother is gathering food for dinner: clams and mussels and the sharply salty greens that grow by the shore. It is warm enough to lie here in the little silty puddles like bathwater left in the tub after the plug has been pulled. It is the beginning of July and we have two months to live out the long, nurturing days, watching the geese and the saltwater swans and the tides as they are today, slipping out, out, out as the moon pulls the other three seasons far away wherever it takes things. Out past the planets, far away from Uranus and the edge of our solar system, into the brilliantly lit dark where the things we don't know about yet reside. Out past my childhood, out past the ghosts, out past the breakwater of the stars. Like the silvery lace curtains of my bedroom being drawn from my window, letting in light, so the moon gently pulls back the layers of the year, leaving the best part open and free. So summer comes to me. life moon sea stars summer-begins Polly Horvath
abddbd3 I don't want eternal life. I want a little joy, a large amount of pleasure, and a swift death once I lose the appetite for either. life pleasure purpose David Gemmell
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. life pain words Elizabeth Gilbert
7b1ca7c Everything in life was transitory, enjoy the moment. life Robert Ferrigno
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. idealism ideas life live thoughts university work young Mitch Albom
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. humor inspirational life love lust old romance science sex wisdom Nelson DeMille
7b93544 One could say that the mechanism of metamorphosis is the only element of life that never changes. The journey of every individual, every country, every historical epoch, of the entire universe and all it contains, is nothing but a series of changes, constitute the backbone of all of us. Whether they are a salvation or a loss, they are moments that we tend to remember. They give a structure to our existence. Almost all the rest is oblivion. I think that the power of art is the power to wake us up, strike us to our depths, change us. What are we searching for when we read a novel, see a film, listen to a piece of music? We are searching, through a work of art, for something that alters us, that we weren't aware of before. We want to transform ourselves. existence life music transformation Jhumpa Lahiri
b574650 The pollenless trees were genomed to repel bugs and birds; the stagnant air reeked of insecticide. life revolutionary science David Mitchell
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. gratefulness life David Guterson
7f8ebbb Ia ZhERTVA TsEPI NESChASTNYKh SLUChAINOSTEI, KAK I VSE MY. life Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
7bba75a Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own. life purpose stories Lois Lowry
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. journey life locomotion Gregory Maguire
23ccf05 ...the meaning of a few moments of forgetfulness in an evil hour and in a dangerous place. Had they been lived through and remained unknown, there on the kapia, they would have meant nothing at all; one of those youthful pranks later told to friends during dull patrol duties at night. But thus, reduced to a question of definite responsibility, they meant everything. They meant more than death, they meant the end of everything, an unwanted and unworthy end. There would be no more full and frank explanations either to himself or to comrades. There would be no more letters from Kolomea, no more family photographs, no money orders such as he had sent home with pride. It was the end of one who has deceived himself and allowed others to deceive him. existentialism life responsibility Ivo Andrić
5b56896 His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea... affluence albert-einstein-life-quotes brandi-bates life life-lessons life-philosophy love-quotes motivation opulence soledad-francis success truth-to-power wealth wisdom Brandi L. Bates
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
f2c9898 Sim, pensa Clarissa, esta na hora deste dia acabar. Nos damos nossas festas; abandonamos nossas familias para viver no Canada; nos nos digladiamos para escrever livros que nao mudam o mundo, a despeito de nossos dons e de nossos imensos esforcos, nossas esperancas mais extravagantes. Vivemos nossas vidas, fazemos nossas coisas, depois dormimos - e simples assim, comum assim. Alguns se atiram da janela, outros se afogam, tomam pilulas; muitos mais morrem em algum acidente; e a maioria de nos, a grande maioria, e devorada por alguma doenca ou, quando temos muita sorte, pelo proprio tempo. Existe apenas isto como consolo: uma hora, em um momento ou outro, quando, apesar dos pesares todos, a vida parece explodir e nos dar tudo o que haviamos imaginado, ainda que qualquer um, exceto as criancas (e talvez ate elas), saiba que a essa seguir-se-ao inevitavelmente muitas outras horas, bem mais penosas e dificeis. Mesmo assim, gostamos da cidade, da manha, e torcemos, como nao fazemos por nenhuma outra coisa, para que haja mais. happiness inspiration life Michael Cunningham
59bbf42 "Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself." -" -- life wise-men Elizabeth Gilbert
23d8367 I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline. fast life pace work workaholic Mitch Albom
41394a2 Auf diesem Platz hat schon mancher gedacht, hier ware der Ort fur ein tuchtiges Stuck Leben und Freude, hier musste etwas Lebendiges, Begluckendes wachsen konnen, hier mussten reife und gute Menschen ihre freudigen Gedanken denken und schone und heitere Werke schaffen. growth life nature place society Hermann Hesse
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
5b584ca A related point: The job of the imagination, in making a story from experience, may be not to gussy the story up but to tone it down. The fact is, the world is unbelievably strange and human behavior is frequently so weird that no kind of narrative except farce or satire can handle it. The function of the storyteller's imagination sometimes is simply to make it more plausible. fiction life storytelling writing Ursula K. Le Guin
5dc6bb7 "(Pagina 45) "A enfermaria zumbe da maneira como ouvi uma fabrica de tecido zumbir uma vez, quando o time de futebol jogou com a escola secundaria na California. Depois de uma boa temporada, s promotores da cidade estavam tao orgulhosos e exaltados que pagavam para que fossemos de aviao ate a California para disputar um campeonato de escolas secundarias com o time de la. Quando chegamos a cidade tivemos de visitar um industria local qualquer. Nosso treinador era um daqueles dados a convencer as pessoas de que o atletismo era educativo por causa do aprendizado proporcionado pelas viagens, e em todas as viagens que faziamos ele carregava com o time para visitar fabricas de laticinios, fazendas de plantacao de beterraba e fabricas de conservas, antes do jogo . Na California foi uma fabrica de tecido. Quando entramos na fabrica, a maior parte do time deu uma olhada rapida e saiu para ir sentar-se no onibus e jogar poquer em cima das malas, mas eu fiquei la dentro numa canto, fora do caminho das mocas negras que corriam de um lado para o outro entre as fileiras de maquinas. A fabrica me colocou numa especie de sonho, todos aqueles zumbidos e estalos a chocalhar de gente e de maquinas sacudindo-se em espasmos regulares. Foi por isso que eu fiquei quando todos os outros se foram, por isso e porque aquilo me lembrou de alguma forma os homens da tribo que haviam deixado a aldeia nos ultimos dias para ir trabalhar na trituradora de pedras para a represa. O padrao frenetico, os rostos hipnotizados pela rotina... eu queria ir com o time, mas nao pude. Era de manha, no principio do inverno, e eu ainda usava a jaqueta que nos deram quando ganhamos o campeonato - uma jaqueta vermelha e verde com mangas de couro e um emblema com o formato de uma bola de futebol bordado nas costas, dizendo o que haviamos vencido - e ela estava fazendo com que uma porcao de mocas negras olhassem. Eu a tirei , mas elas continuaram olhando. Eu era muito maior naquela epoca. " (Pagina 46) "Uma das mocas afastou-se de sua maquina e olhou para um lado e para o outro das passagens entre as maquinas, para ver se o capataz estava por perto, depois veio ate onde eu estava. Perguntou se iamos jogar na escola secundaria naquela noite e me disse que tinha um irmao que jogava como zagueiro para eles. Falamos um pouco a respeito do futebol e coisas assim, e reparei como o rosto dela parecia indistinto, como se houvesse uma nevoa entre nos dois. Era a lanugem de algodao pairando no ar. Falei-lhe a respeito da lanugem. Ela revirou os olhos e cobriu a boca com a mao, para rir, quando eu lhe disse como era parecido com o olhar o seu rosto numa manha enevoada de caca ao pato. E ela disse : " Agora me diga para que e que voce quereria nesse bendito mundo estar sozinho comigo la fora, numa tocaia de pato ?" Disse-lhe que ela poderia tomar de conta da minha arma, e as mocas comecaram a rir com a boca escondida atras das maos na fabrica inteira. Eu tambem ri um pouco, vendo como havia parecido inteligente. Anda estavamos conversando e rindo quando ela agarrou meus pulsos e os apertou com as maos. Os tracos do seu rosto de repente se acentuaram num foco radioso; vi que ela estava aterrorizada por alguma coisa. - Leve-me - disse ela num murmurio - Leve-me mesmo garotao. Para fora desta fabrica aqui, para fora desta cidade, para fora desta vida. Me leva para uma tocaia de pato qualquer, num lugar qualquer . Num outro lugar qualquer. Hem garotao, hem ?" insight life perspective rotina routine Ken Kesey
feafa69 We make our own lives wherever we are, after all[...]They are broad or narrow according to what we put into them, not what we get out. Life is rich and full here...everywhere...if we can only learn how to open our whole hearts to its richness and fullness. life lives L.M. Montgomery
6e8a15d The tunnel of winter had settled over our lives, ushered in by that great official Hoodwink, the end of daylight saving time. Personally I would vote for one more hour of light on winter evenings instead of the sudden, extra-early blackout. Whose idea was it to jilt us this way, leaving us in cold November with our unsaved remnants of daylight petering out before the workday ends? In my childhood, as early as that, I remember observing the same despair every autumn: the feeling that sunshine, summertime, and probably life itself had passed me by before I'd even finished a halfway decent tree fort. But mine is not to question those who command the springing forward and the falling back. I only vow each winter to try harder to live like a potato, with its tacit understanding that time is time, no matter what any clock might say. I get through the hibernation months by hovering as close as possible to the woodstove without actual self-immolation, and catching up on my reading, cheered at regular intervals by the excess of holidays that collect in a festive logjam at the outflow end of our calendar. life winter Barbara Kingsolver
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
4cbbc26 At a certain point he learned the smarter play was to avoid the things that brought you low. depression life sadness Colson Whitehead
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. achieve control death fate happy life perspective thought Mitch Albom
4cae86a If you got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it, flaunt it. life truth Mindy Kaling
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." life live love tug-of-war win wrestle Mitch Albom
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
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. life pain Mike Carey
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. celebrate death life living-funeral love share Mitch Albom
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. happiness inspiration life passages-malibu passages-ventura quotes Chris Prentiss
4c888e0 I may be dying, but I am surrounded by loving, caring souls. How many people can say that? death dying ill life live love Mitch Albom
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. circumstances life Julie Orringer
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? free ideal life thought travel young Mitch Albom
87fc1ea It's not what you get in life that will make you whole, but what you give. life wholeness Robyn Carr
9c287f7 Inlauntrul tau salasluia o imagine pe care ti-o facusesi tu despre viata, o incredere, o cerinta anume, erai gata de fapte, erai gata sa suferi, sa te ssacrifici - pentru ca apoi, pas cu pas, sa-ti dai seama ca lumea nu cerea de la tine niciun fel de fapte si sacrificii sau ceva de genul asta, ca viata nu e un poem eroic cu roluri de eroi si alte lucruri dintr-astea, ci un salon confortabil pentru oamenii cu obiceiuri burgheze, in care individul se declara pe deplin multumit daca maninca si bea, daca isi soarbe cafeaua, daca impleteste ciorapi, joaca taroc si asculta muzica la radio. Iar cine vrea altceva, purtind in el insusi eroicul si frumosul, admiratia pentru marii scriitori sau admiratia pentru sfinti, nu-i decit un nebun si un fel de cavaler Don Quijote. life Hermann Hesse
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
36ca362 If the nature of her foes would speak to the credit of Bridget's death, then surely the nature of her allies would speak even more loudly about clearly of her life. character death enemies foes friends honor honour life Jim Butcher
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. inspirational life John O'Donohue
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. guilt happiness honour life life-lessons sin Stefan Zweig
9c72548 But making the ugly hurt part human again is not an exercise for the well-meaning social worker in us. This is the most dangerous work you can do. It is like bomb disposal but you are the bomb. That's the problem--the awful thing is you. healing life recovery redemption self-help Jeanette Winterson
cf79463 When you receive God's love, it means you're getting close to Him, spending time in His presence, opening your heart to Him, seeking to know Him, and desiring to be more like Him. Remember that choosing to receive God's love changes your life. changes choose-love god life love presence quotes Stormie Omartian
6c18063 I stil aint qwite said how it wer. Not like a diffrent country. It wer mor like I wer behynt the back clof in a show. Thats how it wer. Thru the clof I cud see the other figgers moving I cud see the peopl watching only no 1 cud see me. If I wer a figger in a show what hand wer moving me then? I cudnt be bothert to think on that right then. Theres all ways some thingwl be moving you if it aint 1 thing its a nother you cant help that. life Russell Hoban
4bc97e0 Our choices. Our fleeting moments together. life love mothers-and-daughters Emily Giffin
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 god life philosophy religion Michael Moorcock
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
9d24bc1 Perhaps this is how it is--life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the past returning or not, depending on the tide. History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities, surface towards us, then sink away. Some we hook out, others we ignore, and as the pattern changes, so does the meaning. We cannot rely on the facts. Time, which returns everything, changes everything. history life meaning memory objectivity subjectivity time Jeanette Winterson
cffc146 Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. life pain wisdom Jim Butcher
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 fix life normal David Gerrold
d005480 The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power--and no one holds power forever. White people cannot, in the generality, be taken as models of how to live. Rather, the white man is himself in sore need of new standards, which will release him from his confusion and place him once again in fruitful communion with the depths of his own being. blacks life power self-awareness white-people whites James Baldwin
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. fresh graduate life struggle world young Mitch Albom
403656f It's odd how, against all logic, one clings to life in inverse proportion to the quantity of life one has left to look forward to. life Arturo Pérez-Reverte
400f97d Les jeux son fait. Nous sommes fucked. life Mark Z. Danielewski
54a401d Most men find [peace] entirely unlike what they had expected - like love... life love peace Patrick O'Brian
4af6496 ... both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish... life love pleasure Elizabeth Gilbert
ca613ba Ich war ein Suchender und bin es noch, aber ich suche nicht mehr auf den Sternen und in den Buchern, ich beginne die Lehren zu horen, die mein Blut in mir rauscht life self teachings Hermann Hesse
71676dd "Cheese is all about the dark side of life" - Sister Noella; aka The Cheese Nun" cooking death decay fermentation food foodie life Michael Pollan
96c859b The answers hardly seemed of consequence. Not much did. I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen. life looking-back meaningless passive regret the-sense-of-an-ending Julian Barnes
7cde3ed Do you ever think? What? They were lying together on the sofa that had always been there, the crappy beat-up biscuit-colored sofa that was managing, as best it could, its promotion from threadbare junk to holy artifact. You know. What if I don't know? You fucking do. Okay, yeah. Yes. I, too, wonder if Dad worried so much about every single little goddamned thing . . . That he summoned it. Thanks. I couldn't say it. That some god or goddess heard him, one time too many, getting panicky about whether she'd been carjacked at the mall, or had, like, hair cancer . . . That they delivered the think even he couldn't imagine worrying about. It's not true. I know. But we're both thinking about it. That may have been their betrothal. That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew wandering the crags and crevices of a planet that may not be inhabited by anyone but us. We no longer need, or want, a father. Still, they really have to call him. It's been way too long. brothers connection family life mates partner relationship siblings Michael Cunningham
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
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
1362d2a "The diamond cannot love the flower, for the flower lives only a day, then fades and dies. You are a diamond now." " The flower dies," Jenny said softly, "having lived. The diamond will never do either." diamond life love Barbara Hambly
2ffabb6 I keep seeing my life darting off in the different directions it could have taken, as chance and circumstance, temperament and desire, open and close, open and close gates, routes, roadways. And yet there feels like an inevitability to who I am--just as of all the planets in all the universes, planet blue, this planet Earth, is the one that is home. decisions directions inevitability life personality Jeanette Winterson
71952ec sn wn chyzy nyst khh adm drh, wnh khh adm Hs my khnh. life Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
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." death life teaching the-wise world Elizabeth Gilbert
a275991 Negative emotions, like depression or anxiety, have been shown to affect our immune system. Stress impedes wound healing. depression emotions inspiration life non-12-step passages-malibu passages-ventura positive-thinking quotes stress Chris Prentiss
d471e56 All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. What had happened on New Terra was singular and concrete, but the pattern it was part of seemed to apply everywhere and maybe always. crisis destruction life nature pattern James S.A. Corey
311cc4d They had started one of those wish-fulfillment kids' adventure books, where the boy hero has exactly the qualities he needs to triumph, at every moment... She'd been bored and annoyed, and at one point she tried to explain to Sebastian why it wasn't her favor-ite of his books. But Sebastian had loved the book unreservedly. Why hadn't she just read the fucking thing with gusto and relished every moment with her son? Why had she brought her adult judgment and professional story opinions to a book her kid loved? Of course the child hero should always triumph! Who wanted a kids' book to feel like real life? Real life was fucking intolerable. child childhood hero judgment kid life reading Maile Meloy
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
725f59a "Until I die again, perhaps. Until the next replay. Then it all vanishes." Jeff shook his head, his arm tightly around her shoulders. "Only the products of your work will disappear. The struggle, the devotion you put into your endeavors ... That's where the value truly lies, and will remain: within you." life philosophy-of-life Ken Grimwood
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
727edb3 Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I'd kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, down pours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone. life Marisha Pessl
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?" die ego encourage life missing reflect think Mitch Albom
95d846f Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world. fulfillment life meaning Cormac McCarthy
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. bitter choice cry death decision humility life live mourn Mitch Albom
87decea "I think the idea of simply "enduring to the end" is a terrible philosophy and an awful way to live one's life. How you spend your days is how you live your life, and if you're spending them "enduring" anything then you're doing it wrong." joy life James A. Owen
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. change disease end ill life normal terminal Mitch Albom
a28d485 "It occurred to us that she and the girls read secret signs of misery in cloud formations, that despite the discrepancies in their ages something timeless communicated itself between them, as though she were advising the girls in her mumbling Greek, "Don't waste your time on life." -- jeffrey-eugenides life misery suicide the-virgin-suicides Jeffrey Eugenides
b3d6b13 Before this I had always held back, had never lived freely, not with Pietro, not even with Palmira, but here, where nothing was known, I did not fear judgment, and because Father and I shared the same sensibilities, all the rigidness of my living melted and I felt myself coming into myself. If it was genuine, if it would last, it was a wonderful feeling. life purpose Susan Vreeland
49c148c It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback. inspirational life Nevil Shute
faa063d Suffering is life. life suffering Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1fc80bd Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. Dante reserved a place in his Inferno for those who wilfully live in sadness - sullen in the sweet air, he says. Your 'honour' is all shame and timidity and compliance. Pure of stain! But the artist is the secret criminal in our midst. He is the agent of progress against authority. you are right to be a scholar. A scholar is all scruple, an artist is none. The artist must lie, cheat, deceive, be untrue to nature and contemptuous of history. I made my life into my art and it was an unqualified success. The blaze of my immolation threw its light into every corner of the land where uncounted young men sat each in his own darkness. What would I have done in Megara!? - think what I would have missed! I awoke the imagination of the century. I banged Ruskin's and Pater's heads together, and from the moral severity of one and the aesthetic soul of the other I made art a philosophy that can look the twentieth century in the eye. I had genius, brilliancy, daring, I took charge of my own myth. I dipped my staff into the comb of wild honey. I tasted forbidden sweetness and drank the stolen waters. I lived at the turning point of the world where everything was waking up new - the New Drama, the New Novel, New Journalism, New Hedonism, New Paganism, even the New Woman. Where were you when all this was happening? courage life love Tom Stoppard
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? infinity life spirituality Elizabeth Gilbert
2fe9c4d When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate--the genetic and neural fate--of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. gratitude inspirational life Oliver Sacks
2691fb4 The sadness of life. That was another conundrum he would occasionally ponder. life sadness the-only-story Julian Barnes
94208a1 The truth is he spends thirty minutes of every hour suspecting he has missed some essential clue about himself. And not only himself--he has a recurring fantasy that one night, while he was asleep, the entire world was transformed into an alien planet, but no one bothered to tell him, and he didn't have the instinct to figure it out, and here he is now on a wild new Earth, walking around like an imbecile, as if everything he knows hasn't fallen away behind him like a river plummeting over a precipice. life self self-knowledge understanding Kevin Brockmeier
48f8b4d Il dolore piu sincero si vive soltanto da soli. life loneliness pain Carlos Ruiz Zafón
7d99891 V nekotorom rode dazhe priiatno ostavat'sia v nevedenii otnositel'no togo, chto s nami proiskhodit do rozhdeniia ili posle smerti. Ili chto sluchitsia v nervnoe, nepredskazuemoe vremia mezhdu migom, kotoryi oboznachaet nashu gotovnost' k peremenam v zhizni, i momentom, kogda eti peremeny proiskhodiat. life Douglas Coupland
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. colum-mccann let-the-great-world-spin life Colum McCann
b2d7efa It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. life Carlos Ruiz Zafón
ff3f503 I suppose the worst thing isn't that there might be nothing after death, but that there might be nothing before it. life Christopher Fowler
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
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." boldness dreams funny life Kim Stanley Robinson
8ab48db Pain prompts us to face who we are and where we are. What we do with that experience defines who we become. life success John C. Maxwell
6a93157 El muchacho le explico, como pronunciando un sermon, que el mundo de los hombres era vil y estaba lleno de mentiras. En el, solo el arte conducia a la vida verdadera y eterna, y el mismo era grande porque sabia lo que se encontraba mas alla de las puertas del arte. La muchacha no podia dudar de la nobleza de sus palabras. life love philosophy Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
8778139 He'd probably no more view his life as a story than he would view his life that of a sea cucumber. life Douglas Coupland
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
4875864 When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain life past uncertainty Mohsin Hamid
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. help life listen share sympathy Mitch Albom
73f4be2 There is a sense of the human spirit as always existing. This makes our own death bearable. creativity death existence life Jeanette Winterson
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, insight life Clifford D. Simak
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. happy-ending life Katherine Paterson
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. gossip ill life live love moment quality senseless 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. human kind life love shortage society talk visit Mitch Albom
5bcd89c She was a desperate woman with frailties just like her, temptations just like her, a woman who had needs, a woman who loved almost to the point of there being no more her anymore, a woman who probably cried too much, just like her, a woman afraid, wanting to believe rather than believing [...] faith family life love tears temptation woman Susan Vreeland
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. life suicide Ruth Ozeki
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
a37000c Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on. life noir-fiction struggle Christopher G. Moore
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