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0c6bb54 He didn't want to do this... He had come here to hide. christina-dodd life suspense thriller virtue-falls Christina Dodd
73f4be2 There is a sense of the human spirit as always existing. This makes our own death bearable. creativity death existence life Jeanette Winterson
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
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
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." death excuse friend ill life workaholic Mitch Albom
cbced9a I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I'm going to hear. On you - if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people. cry dying good life need people self story tuesday Mitch Albom
0b7342a Besides, life is a succession of events that link up with each other whether one wants them to or not. life Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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." joy life opportunity optimism spirituality Friedrich Hölderlin
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." life live opposites pull tension Mitch Albom
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
8524775 Mei Yi Kou Hu Xi ,Du Shi Wo Men Zan Shi Tao Li Bu Duan Chong Ji Wo Men De Si Wang ......Dan Zui Hou Huo Sheng De ,Bi Ran Shi Si Wang ,Yin Wei Cong Chu Sheng Yi Lai ,Si Wang Jiu Shi Wo Men De Ming Yun ,Ta Zhi Shi Zai Tun Shi Lie Wu Zhi Qian Wan Nong Yi Fan . Ke Shi ,Wo Men Que Yi Zhi Dui Sheng Ming Bao Chi Da Liang De Xing Qu He Gua Lu ,Jiu Hao Xiang Jie Jin Suo Neng Di Chui Fei Zao Pao ,Xi Wang Yue Da Yue Hao , Yue Jiu Yue Hao ,Dan Fei Zao Pao Que Zhu Ding Bao Lie , Hua Wei Wu You . life Irvin D. Yalom
8548a22 Byc moze cale zycie jest zaledwie dlugim przygotowaniem do chwili, w ktorej sie z nim rozstajemy. end-of-life life John Banville
71952ec sn wn chyzy nyst khh adm drh, wnh khh adm Hs my khnh. life Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
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
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. funeral life perspective precious time urgency Mitch Albom
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
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
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
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
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-malibu passages-ventura perception Chris Prentiss
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
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
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
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
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
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
d13e896 "What had Old Joe Hunt answered when I knowingly claimed that history was the lies of the victors? "As long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated." Do we remember that enough when it comes to our private lives?" life memories memory time Julian Barnes
d148574 Synchronicity, it is like a collaboration with fate. All of that becomes the norm when the EGO (edge God out) is no longer the driving force in your life. force life synchronicity Wayne W. Dyer
09d5b05 We put our faith in things great and small. We assign to them meaning they may actually have, or meaning that we need for them to have in order to carry on. life meaning Kay Redfield Jamison
d1c397f It's been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness. life possibility Gregory Maguire
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
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
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
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
d2939fb Know that we never have to walk in darkness. Even when we get into dark times or dark situations, God's light is always there to be found! god life light quotes Stormie Omartian
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
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
e0b839c If you're going to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now...Things are almost never as bad as they first seem. Loosen up, girlfriend... you could giggle more in real life. life James Patterson
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
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
e2031a6 Fiecare bataie de inima omeneasca, este un univers de posibilitati. life universe Gregory David Roberts
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?) inspirational life literature Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
29c9372 Life is like a river: nothing is ever the same, even for an instant. life relationships self-help the-laws-of-love Chris Prentiss
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. land land-ownership life Dennis Lehane
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
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
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?" death depression dog dying earth environment faith friendship grief help hope illness life loss love nova-scotia pollution rescue Rebecca McNutt
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. impermanence life mortality temporality Ruth Ozeki
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
89a7db8 He felt life more clearly too--even, perhaps especially, when he came to decide that it wasn't worth the candle. feelings julian-barnes life sensitive suicidal suicide the-sense-of-an-ending Julian Barnes
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
1a2e836 "I denounce the do-gooders, the feel-gooders, the "activist clubs," and anyone else who makes people feel like the problem is being taken care of. Trust me. The problem is not being taken care of." life satire Blake Nelson
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
400f97d Les jeux son fait. Nous sommes fucked. life Mark Z. Danielewski
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. dying end ill important life reason think time Mitch Albom
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. chris-prentiss inspiration life love relationships self-help the-laws-of-love Chris Prentiss
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
ea3d59a Stranno e, che vsichki greshki sv'rshvat ednakvo, che vinagi gi povtariame i prod'lzhavame s novi nadezhdi. Tsiala noshch khapem ustni, kh'ltsame v'v v'zglavnitsata s bezpomoshchen gniav i tv'rdo se zaklevame da ostanem samotni, a shchom s'mne, podnasiame dushata si kato nezhen balon ot ts'fnalo glukharche na nasreshchnite vetrove na zhivota i te go roniat i raznasiat. Ala koito spasi samo edno malko pukhche i go vnese na zavet, toi e spasil tsialata si dusha. Tova e gorchiva rabota, no koito ne obr'shcha nezhnoto tsvete na dushata si k'm vetrovete na izpitaniiata, dori tsialoto da go spasi i da go prenese dokrai, toi ne mozhe da pochuvstva, che izobshcho niakoga go e imal. болка cry dandelion душа feel flower глухарче изпитания life live loneliness pain плач sad safe salvation самота save soul спасение страх test вятър winter yugoslavia живот Ivo Andrić
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. dying ill life live past pity presence struggle Mitch Albom
ea5ed26 "R.I.P. Jerry Lewis chance god jerry jerry-lewis laugh laughter lewis life r-i-p Anthony T.Hincks
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. death god life misanthropy religion revenge vengeance Jeanette Winterson
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
6650d66 Your friends will still be your friends, if they're good friends. life love olympics running Jennifer Weiner
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. busy forget life remember taught work Mitch Albom
a6200bb It came to him that life moved in circles like the ripples radiating from a stone cast into a pool. . . Now he was on the outer ring of the last ripple, journeying to fulfill the cycle. Or perhaps the cycle was already complete and he was about to cast another stone. life Elizabeth Chadwick
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
6612c36 ... the appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor of one's humanity. life pleasure Elizabeth Gilbert
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
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
ec4e3fd Keep going. You're a mess and you're happy. life persistence Markus Zusak
ed952a6 "Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in." life slavery Tom Hodgkinson
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." life meaning-of-life secular-education skepticism theories wisdom Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
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
2691fb4 The sadness of life. That was another conundrum he would occasionally ponder. life sadness the-only-story Julian Barnes
04713e1 Be like Sindbad. Venture forth! Embosom the waves, let your shoes be sucked from your feet and your very trousers enticed by the frothing deep. The ambiguous sea awaits, I told them, marry it! There's nothing out there, they said. Wrong, I said, absolutely wrong. There are waltzes, sword canes, and sea wrack dazzling to the eyes. carpe-diem courage curiosity cynicism life living teaching teachings teenagers Donald Barthelme
6257093 So much of how we see the world is the matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and hoping rather than really deep-down believing. collage football life love texas Emily Giffin
26429f3 By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life. chris-prentiss inspiration inspirational life non-12-step passages-malibu passages-ventura perception philosophy quotes Chris Prentiss
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
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
17d8eeb The business of living can steal away the wonder of life. life steal wonder M.J. Rose
03ba352 So I guess what I'm trying to say is that life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track of the season--or even the year. And we just have to make the best of it all. life love mothers-and-daughters Emily Giffin
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
efb4de1 Twenty years earlier, in a life [Kirsten] mostly couldn't remember, she had had a small nonspeaking role in a short-lived Toronto production of King Lear. Now she walked in sandals whose soles had been cut from an automobile tire, three knives in her belt. art drama dystopia life play post-apocalyptic shakespeare Emily St. John Mandel
5e4f5f4 Have you learned nothing from this journey? Magic is a drug. You can't just go around eating everything that sparkles. life Kevin Hearne
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. chaos father growing-up life mother motherhood parents Nicole Krauss
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
03579be El pintor queria retratar las heridas invisibles de la existencia existence life pintor Manuel Rivas
f044b4d Nem lehet boldogga tenni az embereket akaratuk ellenere... Viszont ami a boldogtalanna tevest illeti... life maigret Georges Simenon
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. death funeral life living living-funeral tribute Mitch Albom
922cff1 The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that. attention awe beauty diversity enlightenment god grace humanity life life-force love mindfulness mystery on-being religion spirit wisdom wonder Krista Tippett
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
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
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
24787d3 "Oh, God. Not again." Not again? "Do you make a habit of driving into people's houses?" christina-dodd humor life suspense thriller virtue-falls Christina Dodd
029c438 I cannot at the same time accept the glory and give God the glory... Glorifying God means being occupied with and committed to His ways rather than preoccupied with and determined my own way. It is being so thrilled with Him, so devoted to Him, so committed to Him that we cannot get enough of Him! glorifying-god god life Charles R. Swindoll
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. final learn life watch 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. idealism ideas life live thoughts university work young Mitch Albom
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
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
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
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
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
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? life suicide Tim O'Brien
7bba75a Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own. life purpose stories Lois Lowry
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
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
7b1ca7c Everything in life was transitory, enjoy the moment. life Robert Ferrigno
c05ce56 Life is a very beautiful dream, he thought. I'm so glad I chose not to wake up from it just yet. life thankful Christopher Fowler
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
c0defd6 I wondered again if I might not actually be dead-if this was some terrible version of death, which I had momentarily mistaken for a continuation of life. life Elizabeth Kostova
2d05b53 I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die. irony life Markus Zusak
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
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
0ffe884 It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood. family hollywood life love shopaholic star Sophie Kinsella
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
c2b565b People get rid of plenty when they move--sometimes they're changing not just places but personalities. castoffs furniture interior-decorating life lives moving personality Colson Whitehead
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
bafd469 "That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. If you try to approach a cat and pick it up, hell, it won't let you do it. You've got to say, "Well, to hell with you." And the cat says, "Wait a minute. He's not behaving the way most humans do." Then the cat follows you out of curiosity: "Well, what's wrong with you that you don't love me?" life Ray Bradbury
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
3c0c7de In what way am I any better? She is smug. I am cynical. She is puffed-up. I am punctured. I watch her gamely finding the energy to thrash about on life's greasy surface, while I lie paralysed, croaking about another life I think I can see. life smugness Jeanette Winterson
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
2e89a2d Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas. death depress ideas life will Mitch Albom
7f8ebbb Ia ZhERTVA TsEPI NESChASTNYKh SLUChAINOSTEI, KAK I VSE MY. life Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
b8aceae The planets are bodies in the solar system and so are we. You and I in elliptical orbs circling life. It is life we want, but we daren't come too close for fear it might burn us away, this life in its intensity. life orbiting orbits planets Jeanette Winterson
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
b898f2f The air is so dry, so clear, and there's so few people, almost no lights. And you can lie on your back and look up and see the Milky Way. All the stars like a splash of milk in the sky. And you see them slowly move. Because the Earth is moving. And you feel like you're lying on a giant spinning ball in space. existence existentialism life space stargazing stars the-milky-way the-world wonder Mohsin Hamid
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
a37000c Life is swimming to shore with cowboy boots on. life noir-fiction struggle Christopher G. Moore
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