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life - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
James Patterson
If life were a movie, we'd have had what they call a "meet cute".
James Patterson
Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.
James Patterson
Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to
James Patterson
Here's a nice image for a life in balance, she said. You're juggling these four balls that you've named work, family, friends, spirit. Now, work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it bounces back. The other balls they're made of glass.I've dropped a few of those glass balls in my day. Sometimes they chip, sometimes they shatter to pieces.
James Patterson
Im a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me... And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of. - Maximum Ride.
Stephanie Perkins
Being a good person, or a better person, or whatever it is you're worried about and trying to fix? It shouldn't change who you are. It means you become more like yourself.
Carl Hiaasen
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.
Philip Yancey
Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.
Lawrence Durrell
I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?
Lawrence Durrell
Art like life is an open secret.
Lewis Carroll
Is Life itself a dream, I wonder?
Henry James
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.
Henry James
Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?
Henry James
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
Victor Hugo
Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care...Hardly one day in a hundred of unbroken joy and sunshine. And you are of that small number who at lucky! As for the other men, stagnant night is upon them.
Victor Hugo
His life was still too short, to know that there is no more imminent thing than the impossible, and that what we must always foresee is the unexpected.
William Shakespeare
Let every man be master of his time.
William Shakespeare
I have set my life upon a cast,And I will stand the hazard of the die.
Arthur Miller
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
John Updike
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.
John Updike
In fact we do not try to picture the afterlife, nor is it our selves in our nervous tics and optical flecks that we wish to perpetuate; it is the self as the window on the world that we can't bear to thinkof shutting. My mind when I was a boy of ten or eleven sent up its silent scream at the thought of future aeons -- at the thought of the cosmic party going on without me. The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise of the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
John Barth
He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator -- though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.
Rebecca McNutt
I can pretend it's all pretend! I can be the life of your death and you can be the death of my life… what a trade-off!
Rebecca McNutt
Small talk… Bernie resented it more than life itself. The weather, sports scores, frivolous gossip… nothing real, nothing serious, nothing meaningful about it. People were experts at wasting their brief, precious years on earth with small talk.
Carlos Castaneda
Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?
Salman Rushdie
Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on a single spoon. Every pickle-jar {you will forgive me if I become florid for a moment} contains, therefore, the most exalted of possibilities: the feasibility of the chutnification of history; the grand hope of the pickling of time!
Salman Rushdie
He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.
Salman Rushdie
Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.
John Steinbeck
Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.
John Steinbeck
What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.
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