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b9ce833 Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone. achievement change comfort-zone courage dream dreams inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational start-up step-out-of-your-comfort-zone Roy T. Bennett
e338e81 Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy! cake cakes happiness inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes joy life life-and-living living looking-no-further the-way-of-the-cake the-way-to-happiness understanding-happiness understanding-joy C. JoyBell C.
fa2043d The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy. choice choose happiness happy inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes live-life-happy living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
beb87b7 The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me. inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life living onion-skins people persona the-world C. JoyBell C.
ad815ae To live at all is miracle enough. living miracle miracles Mervyn Peake
8fae888 I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered-- about her teeth, for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things that she had lost, but whose inner glow has faded. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life. living Willa Cather
6b7c687 The past is a place of learning, not a place of living. experience inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-quotes living Roy T. Bennett
f59b152 How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order--willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living. life living schedule Annie Dillard
f8b7c92 Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain. living Milan Kundera
aa4d12d It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place. american-psycho conclusion crime cruel demons epiphany evil gore horror human-beings human-nature humanity humans life living murder murderer murderers psycho psychopath quote serial-killer serial-killers society the-world theory Bret Easton Ellis
8ff4f02 What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature... That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in. living perception Tom Wolfe
8bc2ae9 The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. carpe-diem dead death dream dying existing life life-and-death living reality truths Arundhati Roy
0085625 Life ... is a bit like reading. ... If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it's yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it's yours. But what if such an answer gradually becomes less and less convincing? living readers writers Julian Barnes
15bdabb I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live. life living Albert Camus
cb70f7e We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths. living Chuck Klosterman
a0ad694 "As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist." -- living mystery witness Madeleine L'Engle
1e31772 If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes. haunted living mistakes Chuck Palahniuk
ca90847 How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing. living Annie Dillard
aca9b07 "A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: "There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired." life living love romance F. Scott Fitzgerald
37216e3 There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. life living living-life L.M. Montgomery
22ef26f There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92) life living living-life L.M. Montgomery
59033c8 Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground. humor living Carol Shields
90c39ac Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there's always something waiting, and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living. death fate inspirational life living Truman Capote
6503248 After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds... living living-life solitude Jack Kerouac
08d5c5e The fog is clearing; life is a matter of taste. life living suicide Frank Wedekind
6382ca4 We are frightfully concerned with our own deaths, sometimes so much so that we forget the real purpose of our lives journey life living purpose-of-life purpose-of-living Brian L. Weiss
c4ba895 Any given moment--no matter how casual, how ordinary--is poised, full of gaping life. living Anne Michaels
e10f62f To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again living music soul Mary Stewart
0494705 The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself. living self Anaïs Nin
f33249f There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything. life life-and-living living living-life living-life-to-the-fullest suicide Nick Hornby
3793d90 [T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68) family humanity life living Karen Armstrong
22f88bf All who are born are always dying. dying living Mitch Albom
143d131 Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia. fleet funny gormenghast life life-lessons living onomatopoeia out-of-context witty Mervyn Peake
537aece Its hard to die. Harder to live living Dan Simmons
1457b22 Living is getting knocked down time and again, then standing up time and again, and once more. It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green. Plenty difficult when the ground is dried and burned and people have connived to take even that from you. I'll sell this place, or I'll lose it. I'll go on. People who don't have hard times aren't living. living perseverance Nancy E. Turner
46b05bf There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. living nature Ursula K. Le Guin
5d08aaa With a sigh, he grabbed hold of his chair and lifted himself out of it, then wrote on the blackboard: How will we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering? - A.Y. 'I'm going to leave that up for the rest of the semester,' he said. 'Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I don't want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to understand how people have answered that question and the questions each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life. labyrinth living lost maze rotten-life suffering tradition John Green
87ef0c7 It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything. construction importance-of-existence life living Chuck Palahniuk
727becb Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy. life living mortality Anne Carson
94b65c5 Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes. living living-on sorrow waiting H. Rider Haggard
86e7550 "Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!" forbidden life living mortal ted-dekker tosca-lee Ted Dekker
0c3ac01 "The way we are living, choices life living poetry Seamus Heaney
a715ca6 Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you. living Jeanette Winterson
5341ead "(about William Blake) As for Blake's happiness--a man who knew him said: "If asked whether I ever knew among the intellectual, a happy man, Blake would be the only one who would immediately occur to me." And yet this creative power in Blake did not come from ambition. ...He burned most of his own work. Because he said, "I should be sorry if I had any earthly fame, for whatever natural glory a man has is so much detracted from his spiritual glory. I wish to do nothing for profit. I wish to live for art. I want nothing whatever. I am quite happy." ...He did not mind death in the least. He said that to him it was just like going into another room. On the day of his death he composed songs to his Maker and sang them for his wife to hear. Just before he died his countenance became fair, his eyes brightened and he burst into singing of the things he saw in heaven. " creativity effort freedom glory happiness living william-blake Brenda Ueland
d023031 Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young man - all present still, preserved like fossils on superimposed layers, and, like fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died - what is there to be afraid of? It answers them: But that happened so gradually, so easily. I'm afraid of being rushed. dying face living mirror Christopher Isherwood
70d8543 My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils. living world Charlotte Brontë
64df468 Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater living slater Ted Dekker
3eab5c1 The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for you. Be a reporter. Be a good witness. A grateful member of the audience. life living participate truth Chuck Palahniuk
e95698c We live longer but less precisely and in shorter sentences. living poetry Wisława Szymborska
1ebf7a0 You've thrown down the gauntlet. You've brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But... If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist... then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master. damned death dying heaven hell kill life living master murder puppet wrath Chuck Palahniuk
85578fa Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a brief transit through a sorry world hardly called for effusiveness, even when the path was suddenly irradiated at some half-way point by daybeams rich as hers. But her strong sense that neither she nor any human being deserved less than was given, did not blind her to the fact that there were others receiving less who had deserved much more. And in being forced to class herself among the fortunate she did not cease to wonder at the persistence of the unforeseen, when the one to whom such unbroken tranquility had been accorded in the adult stage was she whose youth had seemed to teach that happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. living pain suffering Thomas Hardy
9901f7d Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and basso, and baritone, and alto, and tenor, and soprano, and also mezzo, and contralto, singing and singing, until life and all things living are become a song. O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might. choirs living sing singing song Richard Llewellyn
f85696c That's the thing about living vicariously; it's so much faster than actual living. life life-quotes literature living quotes Audrey Niffenegger
a1ad38a Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for. life-lessons living Diana Palmer
de9b74c I feel life trembling within me, in my tongue, on the soles of my feet, in my desire or my suffering, I want my soul to be a wandering thing, able to move back into a hundred forms, I want to dream myself into priests and wanderers, female cooks and murderers, children and animals, and, more than anything else, birds and trees; that is necessary, I want it, I need it so I can go on living, and if sometime I were to lose these possibilities and be caught in so-called reality, then I would rather die. freedom life living possibility Hermann Hesse
edaf28e Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use. The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world. living reality science suffering tools words Richard Dawkins
a15565a Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for living touching Stephenie Meyer
a605749 I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living. forgotten living memories past Jim Thompson
7c371c6 I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die. living living-life living-well Anne Lamott
7ed0dcb Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts... artist career creative creativity life living vocation Madeleine L'Engle
50811b0 Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. inspiration life life-lessons living siddhartha sin Hermann Hesse
ddb464b Dying's easy. It's living that's hard. dying easy hard life living zarek Sherrilyn Kenyon
f02e977 The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations. fossils language living outdated Antonio Gramsci
fca860d She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off. complicated joy joys life like-life living lorrie-moore pressure quote quotes realization short-story small-joys Lorrie Moore
86c3cc8 I'm just capable of entertaining the fantastic idea that, in certain circumstances, might actually be capable of thinking. It must be worth a go, since we've tried everything else. life-lessons life-philosophy living people thinking Terry Pratchett
f6885d1 Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living. living William T. Vollmann
7fe57e4 Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds... houses and whole districts of people who aren't really unhappy, but worse, who are neither happy nor unhappy; people who are ugly because they're neither ugly nor beautiful; creatures that are dismally neutral, who long without longings as though they're unconscious, unconsciously suffering from being alive. happiness living longing Eugène Ionesco
24b11ec And it was knowing that I could still be ... still be afraid of everyhting, but not letting fear stop me from living fear life living Jennifer L. Armentrout
fde01e4 You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times. enjoyment life living Natalie Goldberg
aedf267 Shannon: Only the living suffered. Only they were riddled with guilt and regret and unanswered questions. living nora-roberts shannon suffering Nora Roberts
0293777 Stand here, he thought, and count the lighted windows of a city. You cannot do it. But behind each yellow rectangle that climbs, one over another, to the sky - under each bulb - down to there, see that spark over the river which is not a star? - there are people whom you will never see and who are your masters. At the supper tables, in the drawing rooms, in their beds and in their cellars, in their studies and in their bathrooms. Speeding in the subways under your feet. Crawling up in elevators through vertical cracks around you. Jolting past you in every bus. Your masters, Gail Wynand. There is a net - longer than the cables that coil through the walls of this city, larger than the mesh of pipes that carry water, gas and refuse - there is another hidden net around you; it is strapped to you, and the wires lead to every hand in the city. They jerked the wires and you moved. You were a ruler of men. You held a leash. A leash is only a rope with a noose at both ends. democracy follower leader living masses master mob-rule slave society Ayn Rand
5511fee You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. comfort death life living relax Ian Fleming
6b505f1 One of the extraordinary things about life is the sort of places it's prepared to put up with living. living wisdom Douglas Adams
f162cad It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing. book falling fly flying freedom happiness happy inspiration inspirational life living love Tim O'Brien
e7b882b To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality - wasn't an inviolable human trait but something we can lose simply by leading dull and dreary lives. 'A rich emotional life,' she'd written, 'is a privilege reserved only for the daring few'. emotions feelings happiness life living numbness sadness Ryū Murakami
f37c0e2 I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face. death fear-of-death living living-well Alberto Manguel
085e644 The worker picked up Pakhom's spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs. dying greed life life-and-death living poverty wealth Leo Tolstoy
4f4a0c7 One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits. In fact, I insist on it. A letter is like a poem, it leaps into life and shows very clearly the marks, perhaps I should say thumbprints, of an unwilling or unready composer. living writing James Salter
2dda999 It brings me back to the moment, and I want to live the moment with everything I've got. living Lisa Schroeder
adc8cfb Millions of things came back to her. Atoms danced apart and massed themselves. But how did they compose what people called a life? living Virginia Woolf
f3e5ed6 My chest clenched as I looked down at the oil-stained asphalt. Here but not. Existing but not living. I knew that feeling. Lived it for several years. Some days it felt like I was still wearing that feeling like a heavy jacket buttoned up too tightly. living love romance the-problem-with-forever ya Jennifer L. Armentrout
7df145d Everyone gets so worried about the people who are still living when the people who are really hurting are the dead ones. People like Grandma and Graham.They don't exist anymore. There is nothing worse than that hurting living Matthew Green
a995a86 ...you have to bear witness to your dead. You simply have to. You have to step into their energy field of whatever remains of their spirit, their soul, their essence and let it pass through your body. And in the passing, maybe a wisp of it adheres to you, grafts itself to your cells. And in this communion, the dead continue to live. Or strive to. honoring-the-dead living Dennis Lehane
732c4de I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry. life-experience life-lessons living Wallace Stegner
168b084 Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out there who kept lifting her dress up over her head. Now that was living. Just lift your dress if you wanted to get down and don't worry what anyone thought. dance humor inspirational living Erin McCarthy
dfa2ca5 Love reduces the complexity of living. It amazes me that when Henry walks towards the cafe table where I wait for him, or opens the gate to our house, the sight of him is sufficient to exult me. No letter from anyone, even in praise of my book, can stir me as much as a note from him. living love Anaïs Nin
8c00253 Pursue, keep up with, circle round and round your life, as a dog does his master's chaise. Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. life living Henry David Thoreau
44804a6 The harassed look is that of a desperately tired swimmer or runner; yet there is no question of stopping. The creature we are watching will struggle on and on until it drops. Not because it is heroic. It can imagine no alternative. Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young-man - all present still, preserved as fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died -what is there to be afraid of? It answers them: But it happened so gradually, so easily. living Christopher Isherwood
a1ba6f9 I took up space. I was a collection of cells and memories, awkward limbs and clumsy fashion crimes; I was the repository of my parents' expectations and evidence of their disappointments disappointment expectations life living memories memory parents Robin Wasserman
1729304 Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer. christian faith god living love plan prayer prepare run Elizabeth George
6ce0320 Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of deathless day. On one hand embers. On the other ashes. Day without end won and lost. Unseen. living void Samuel Beckett
640bd9f The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive... away bear dead flannery it living mason o-connor tarwater the violent Flannery O'Connor
5c93c37 You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there's no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man's nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots. Here I, for instance, quite naturally want to live, in order to satisfy all my capacities for life, and not simply my capacity for reasoning, that is, not simply one twentieth of my capacity for life. What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning (some things, perhaps, it will never learn; this is a poor comfort, but why not say so frankly?) and human nature acts as a whole, with everything that is in it, consciously or unconsciously, and, even if it goes wrong, it lives. life living reason Fyodor Dostoyevsky
b657a28 It is possible to be struck by a meteor or a single-engine plane while reading in a chair at home. Safes drop from rooftops and flatten the odd pedestrian mostly within the panels of the comics, but still, we know it is possible, as well as the flash of summer lightning, the thermos toppling over, spilling out on the grass. And we know the message can be delivered from within. The heart, no valentine, decides to quit after lunch, the power shut off like a switch, or a tiny dark ship is unmoored into the flow of the body's rivers, the brain a monastery, defenseless on the shore. This is what I think about when I shovel compost into a wheelbarrow, and when I fill the long flower boxes, then press into rows the limp roots of red impatiens-- the instant hand of Death always ready to burst forth from the sleeve of his voluminous cloak. Then the soil is full of marvels, bits of leaf like flakes off a fresco, red-brown pine needles, a beetle quick to burrow back under the loam. Then the wheelbarrow is a wilder blue, the clouds a brighter white, and all I hear is the rasp of the steel edge against a round stone, the small plants singing with lifted faces, and the click of the sundial as one hour sweeps into the next. life living poetry Billy Collins
385f872 Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By most astounding stroke of luck and infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist. For endless eons there was no you. Before you know it, you will cease to be again. And in between you have this wonderful opportunity to see and feel and think and do. Whatever else you do with your life, nothing will remotely compare with the incredible accomplishment of having managed to get yourself born. Congratulations. Well done. You really are special. inspirational life living Bill Bryson
a0995df It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist. living Jeanette Winterson
06b5105 That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it... life-and-death living Philip K. Dick
468c91a "L'homme ne peut jamais savoir ce qu'il faut vouloir car il n'a qu'une vie et il ne peut ni la comparer a des vies anterieures ni la rectifier dans des vies ulterieures. (...) Il n'existe aucun moyen de verifier quelle decision est la bonne car il n'existe aucune comparaison. Tout est vecu tout de suite pour la premiere fois et sans preparation. Comme si un acteur entrait en scene sans avoir jamais repete. Mais que peut valoir la vie, si la premiere repetition de la vie est deja la vie meme ? C'est ce qui fait que la vie ressemble toujours a une esquisse. Mais meme "esquisse" n'est pas le mot juste, car une esquisse est toujours l'ebauche de quelque chose, la preparation d'un tableau, tandis que l'esquisse qu'est notre vie est une esquisse de rien, une ebauche sans tableau. (partie I, ch. 3)" living Milan Kundera
5e91553 En vivant votre misere, vous pouvez etre malheureuse ou heureuse. C'est dans ce choix que consiste votre liberte. Vous etes libre de fondre votre individualite dans la marmite de la multitude avec un sentiment de defaite, ou bien avec euphorie. (...) notre seule liberte est de choisir entre l'amertume et le plaisir. L'insignifiance de tout etant notre lot, il ne faut pas la porter comme une tare, mais savoir s'en rejouir. (ch. 43) happiness living Milan Kundera
26a636d If it doesn't sweat, jiggle, or pant, it's not alive. alice alive exercise gross jiggle jogging living pant random running sweat weird Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
4c7e5e0 We worship numberless gods or idols, but we all need to be the grandest possible versions of ourselves, we need to walk across the face of the earth with as much grace and beauty as we can muster before we're wrapped in our winding sheets, and returned. life-lessons living purpose purposeful-living wisdom Michael Cunningham
40d6e57 We would never go shopping together or eat an entire cake while we complained about men. He'd never invite me over to his house for dinner or a barbecue. We'd never be lovers. But there was a very good chance that one of us would be the last person the other saw before we died. It wasn't friendship the way most people understood it, but it was friendship. There were several people I'd trust with my life, but there is no one else I'd trust with my death. Jean-Claude and even Richard would try to hold me alive out of love or something that passed for it. Even my family and other friends would fight to keep me alive. If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living. anita-blake-vampire-hunter bromance death edward-forrester friends friendship laurell-k-hamilton living obsidian-butterfly soulmates ted-forrester Laurell K. Hamilton
336bad4 Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?' ...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels. dying inevitability life living Ursula K. Le Guin
0005e5c One of the reasons why I liked living in Manhattan was that the city would share your mood the moment you walked out the door. If you were in a hurry, everything else was too, even the pigeons. You shared the same speed and sense of urgency to get wherever you were going. When you had time to kill, it was happy to give you things to look at and do that easily took up whole days. I didn't agree with people who said Manhattan was a cold, indifferent town. Sure it was gruff, but it was also playful and sometimes very funny. living manhattan mood Jonathan Carroll
1db2b97 If you never been rabid, you ain't never lived. living rabid Chuck Palahniuk
819efb0 How alive am I willing to be? living Anne Lamott
b8810c7 I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about them. That's what people are always doing in art. They call a painter an impressionist or a cubist or something and then they put him in a drawer and don't see him as a living individual painter any more. classify collect collectors cubism cubist drawer forget hate impressionism impressionist individual living names naming painter people John Fowles
b8142b2 vivre dans la verite, ne mentir ni a soi-meme ni aux autres, ce n'est possible qu'a la condition de vivre sans public. Des lors qu'il y a un temoin a nos actes, nous nous adaptons bon gre mal gre aux yeux qui nous observent, et plus rien de ce que nous faisons n'est vrai. Avoir un public, penser a un public, c'est vivre dans le mensonge (partie III, ch. 7) living truth Milan Kundera
407a066 How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead. death fiction living scary shift sudden transition Marisha Pessl
da8d1c9 "In the midst of life we are in death,'" said Miss Ophelia." -- living Harriet Beecher Stowe
bd179b6 If you want to live a godly life, then choose to put the things into your mind that lead to living a godly life. god godly life living Elizabeth George
59099d7 I'd think it strange that the boardinghouse attracted both him and me, but that's what cheap places do -- draw in people with no money. An apartment of my own was unthinkable at that time of my life, and even if I'd found an affordable one it wouldn't have satisfied my fundamental need to live in a communal past, or what I imagined the past to be like: a world full of antiques. community living money David Sedaris
63fa695 Let's only care about the place where we are. There's beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else. If there's someone beyond the curve in the road, Let them worry about what's past the curve in the road, That's what the road is to them. being feeling god it-is-what-it-is life living meaning nature paganism pantheism worry Alberto Caeiro
448216e It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have it turn different. living Zora Neale Hurston
5caaca4 This is what I think about when I shovel compost into a wheelbarrow, and when I fill the long flower boxes, then press into rows the limp roots of red impatiens-- the instant hand of Death always ready to burst forth from the sleeve of his voluminous cloak. Then the soil is full of marvels, bits of leaf like flakes off a fresco, red-brown pine needles, a beetle quick to burrow back under the loam. Then the wheelbarrow is a wilder blue, the clouds a brighter white, and all I hear is the rasp of the steel edge against a round stone, the small plants singing with lifted faces, and the click of the sundial as one hour sweeps into the next. living poetry time Billy Collins
8641e47 You know, it's really very peculiar. To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead. dying immortality life living mortality philosophy Milan Kundera
0b2141c I might be the hazardous waste site that polluted it, but Cape Breton Island is still my home. canada-day cape-breton coal country hazardous home life living nova-scotia patriot pollution steel sydney-tar-ponds toxic Rebecca McNutt
4868850 God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down here. We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke, each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written her script, too. And a sorry one it was. down-here each-day god life living mothers players scripts speaking spoke spoken-words thought written V.C. Andrews
fe13ec8 There are dreamed anguishes that are more real Than the ones life brings us, there are sensations Felt only by imagining Which are more ours than our own life is. There's so often a thing which, not existing, Does exist, exists lingeringly And lingeringly is ours and us... dreams living poetry Fernando Pessoa
4212501 But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437 choice living predestination Joseph Delaney
73044a4 Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. life living meaning mortality Muriel Spark
84f931f It is said that [Shakespeare's] time was easier than ours, but I doubt it--no time can be easy if one is living through it. hard-times living shakespeare James Baldwin
8609b3f It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it. living subliminal Ray Bradbury
d460757 Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. 'What is the egg to the eagle?' he asked me... human-nature living perspective quote quotes quotes-on-life the-winter-king Bernard Cornwell
667c577 But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes. home life living where-you-live Lorrie Moore
d3883a3 The real troubles with living is that living is so banal. life living James Baldwin
8217104 The Word frees us from smallness of mind (1 Kings 4:29) and from threatening confinements (Psalm 18:19). life living open-mindedness word John Piper
0f961b2 Just as the hare is zipping across the finish line, the tortoise has stopped once again by the roadside, this time to stick out his neck and nibble a bit of sweet grass, unlike the previous time when he was distracted by a bee humming in the heart of a wildflower. living mindfulness poetry Billy Collins
87b0b53 There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead. dear fragile happy-endings jonathan-rebeck joys-of-the-dead laura-durand living michael-morgan nothing-ends righteous self-centered unworthy worthy Peter S. Beagle
7c4f66d You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets. black-power blackness inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-lessons life-lessons-quotes living living-life living-now people-of-color strength Ta-Nehisi Coates
eb5ff63 This thing I'm doing can hardly be called living. Instead I'm lying dormant, like a bacterium in a glacier. Getting time over with. That's all. living time Margaret Atwood
83b91bf Although I am unconvinced that I desire life, I am not yet ready to embrace death. fate life living Charles Stross
36148aa As long as you're breathing, your story's still going. ending life living story Darren Shan
e43a30e If you don't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting. fear living travel Elizabeth Gilbert
b3b0ab3 En travaux pratiques de physique, n'importe quel collegien peut faire des experiences pour verifier l'exactitude d'une hypothese scientifique. Mais l'homme, parce qu'il n'a qu'une seule vie, n'a aucune possibilite de verifier l'hypothese par l'experience de sorte qu'il ne saura jamais s'il a eu tort ou raison d'obeir a son sentiment. (partie I, ch. 16) living Milan Kundera
b6e1a53 Etre elu est une notion theologique qui veut dire : sans aucun merite, par un verdict surnaturel, par une volonte libre, sinon capricieuse, de Dieu, on est choisi pour quelque chose d'exceptionnel et d'extraordinaire. C'est dans cette conviction que les saints ont puise la force de supporter les plus atroces supplices. Les notions theologiques se refletent, telle leur propre parodie, dans la trivialite de nos vies ; chacun de nous souffre (plus ou moins) de la bassesse de sa vie trop ordinaire et desire y echapper et s'elever. Chacun de nous a connu l'illusion (plus ou moins forte) d'etre digne de cette elevation, d'etre predestine et choisi pour elle. (chapitre 15) living Milan Kundera
43790a2 And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life; not for me the endless whining and wailing of the undead. immortal living John Boyne
faff9ee "That's what we're all looking for. A certain peace with the idea of dying. If we know, in the end, that we can ultimately have that peace with dying, then we can finally do the really hard thing." Which is? "Make peace with living." living peace Mitch Albom
31331dd Like weddings, funerals are about unity. Funerals are the unity of a person with the sweet hereafter, assuming that one believes in such a thing. death dying funeral graveyard living mortuary undertaker unity wedding Rebecca McNutt
478401c You think this is living? This is eating, nothing else. life living Peter S. Beagle
da361f2 "So I had something to do, something I'd done, someplace to go, and something to look forward to. That's a reasonable way to live. I enjoyed myself living. I had a good time. How much else can you ask for?" "A lot more," Laura said softly, "if you're greedy. I was greedy once." "So was I, but that was a long time ago. You're greediest when you're born, and after that it's downhill all the way. Live to be two hundred and you wouldn't demand anything." life living Peter S. Beagle
7d40504 Who'll hold families together, if everybody has to live? Living is a compromise, between doing what you want and doing what other people want. life living John Updike
5e3060f Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain. depression destiny dream dreams earning endtime family fantasy feminism fiction-food-for-though forgiveness freedom friends friendship future grief heart history humanity-humour imagination inspirational-quotes intelligence-is-attractive joy leadership life-and-living-life-philosophy life-quotes literature living loss love-quotes magic-spirit marriage meditation-men mind money motivation motivational motivational-quotes music nature pain passion-peace patience patience-johnson pentecost people politics positive-thinking power prayer psychology purpose quote quotes reading reality-relationship repentance sadness self-help self-improvement society soul spiritual strength time trust-war wisdom-quotes women words work world Patience Johnson
a4bd9c2 In ballet, any dancer who asks himself what step comes next must freeze. Any man who takes a sex manual to bed with him invites frigidity. Dancing, sex, writing a novel--all are a living process, quick thought, emotion making yet more quick thought, and so on, cycling round. living Ray Bradbury
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