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life
life - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
Richard Russo
I'm about to fuck up, he thought clearly, and his next thought was, but I don't have to. This was followed closely by a third thought, the last of this familiar sequence, which was, but I'm going to anyway.
Ruth Ozeki
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.
Ruth Ozeki
It is in this chapter that he praises young monks for perseverance on the path to awakening and explains the granular nature of the time: 6,400 099,980 moments are one day. The purpose of his reasoning is to show that each of these points makes it possible for the will. Even a click of fingers, he says, provides us with sixty -six opportunities for awakening and choosing actions that will create a favorable karma and the opportunity to change our lives.
Ruth Ozeki
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.
Ruth Ozeki
The way you write ronin is ζ΅ͺδΊΊ with the character for wave and the character for person, which is pretty much how I feel, like a little wave person, floating around on the stormy sea of life.
Mindy Kaling
If you got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it, flaunt it.
Stephen King
I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity.
Robert Frost
The mind-is not the heart.I may yet live, as I know others live,To wish in vain to let go with the mind
Joseph Conrad
Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?
Joseph Conrad
The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity condemned ultimately to perish from cold is not worth troubling about. If you take it to heart it becomes an unendurable tragedy. If you believe in improvement you must weep, for the attained perfection must end in cold, darkness and silence. In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, and knowledge, and even for beauty is only a vain sticking up for appearances as though one were anxious about the cut of one's clothes in a community of blind men.
Joseph Conrad
Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.
Vladimir Nabokov
For we die every day; oblivion thrivesNot on dry thighbones but on blood-ripe lives,And our best yesterdays are now foul pilesOf crumpled names, phone numbers and foxed files.
Vladimir Nabokov
You have to be an artist and a madman...
Vladimir Nabokov
Death often is the point of life's joke.
Vladimir Nabokov
We all have such fateful objects - it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another - carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.
Vladimir Nabokov
Oh, don't cry, I'm so sorry I cheated so much, but that's the way things are.
Richard Adams
This was their way of honoring the dead. The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert themselves in their hearts, in their nerves, their blood and appetites. Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept. Odysseus brings not one man to shore with him. Yet he sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope.
Anne Lamott
Remember that you own what happened to you.
Anne Lamott
grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101.
Samuel Beckett
{I}f you set out to mention everything you would never be done, and that's what counts, to be done, to have done. Oh, I know, even when you mention only a few of the things there are you do not get done either, I know, I know. But it's a change of muck. And if all muck is the same muck that doesn't matter, it's good to have a change of muck, to move from one heap to another, from time to time, fluttering you might say, like a butterfly, as if you were ephemeral.
Samuel Beckett
But it is only since I have ceased to live that I think of these things and the other things. It is in the tranquillity of decomposition that I remember the long confused emotion which was my life, and that I judge it, as it is said that God will judge me, and with no less impertinence. To decompose is to live too, I know, I know, don't torment me, but one sometimes forgets.
Sue Monk Kidd
People who think dying is the worst thing don't know a thing about life.
Sue Monk Kidd
The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
You know, some things don't matter that much...Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart - now, matters.
Sue Monk Kidd
People can start out one way, and by the time life gets through with them they end up completely different.
Sue Monk Kidd
August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't...August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters.
Paul Bowles
When I was young" β¦ "Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept gaining impetus, it would get richer and deeper each year. You kept learning more, getting wiser, having more insight, going further into the truth" β she hesitated. Port laughed abruptly. β "And now you know it's not like that. Right? It's more like smoking a cigarette. The first few puffs it tasted wonderful, and you don't even think of its ever being used up. Then you begin taking it for granted. Suddenly you realize it's nearly burned down to the end. And then's when you're conscious of the bitter taste.
Stephenie Meyer
I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young {in most cases} to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.
Stephenie Meyer
Life sucks, and then you die.Yeah, I should be so lucky.
Stephenie Meyer
What am I dying for?
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