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life - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
John O'Donohue
One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have reverence always for the immensity that is inside you.
John O'Donohue
It is lovely to meet an old person whose face is deeply lined, a face that has been deeply inhabited, to look in the eyes and find light there.
Dodie Smith
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Until death it is all life
Margaret Atwood
You think you can get rid of things, and people too--leave them behind. You don't know yet about the habit they have, of coming back.
Margaret Atwood
I could do a good imitation of a competent young woman.
Margaret Atwood
Dead was not an absolute concept to her. Some people were more dead than others, and finally it was a matter of opinion who was dead and who was alive, so it was best not to discuss such a thing.
Margaret Atwood
It's the end of the world every day, for someone.
Margaret Atwood
Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms.
Margaret Atwood
I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.
Margaret Atwood
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
Margaret Atwood
We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down.
Margaret Atwood
A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
Sophie Kinsella
Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one can get me here. No one even knows I'm here. I won't get any nasty letters and I won't get any nasty phone calls and I won't get any nasty visitors. It's like a sanctuary. I feel as if I'm fifteen again, with nothing to worry about but my Homework. {And I haven't even got any of that.}
Sophie Kinsella
A mistake isn't a mistake unless it can't be put right.
Marian Keyes
A thought struck me: maybe I wouldn't ever be the real me again. Because the only thing that would snap things back to the way they were, would be if he had't died.
Marian Keyes
It actually felt harder, not easier, to be with people. The toughest challenge was my face; maintaining a 'normal' expression was utterly exhausting.
Marian Keyes
In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear.
Marian Keyes
So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule book and I missed out? Where was I when God was dispensing capability and cop on? Looking at shoes, probably.
Robyn Carr
My best advice is this - by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.
Nicholas Evans
Her only shame was that she felt none.
Henry Miller
Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. {Paradisical flaws, if you like.} If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.
Emily St. John Mandel
Adulthood's full of ghosts... High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.
J.D. Robb
Friendships were so damn complicated, so bound with sharp edges that could jab a hole through you at any given point.
J.D. Robb
Why did people always get tangled up with other people? Why put ourselves through this shit?
Elizabeth Kostova
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.
Erik Larson
But one thing was quite clear… he wrote. {B}eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time. Bloom went on to become a congressman and one of the crafters of the charter that founded the United Nations.
John Scalzi
Filled with existential ennui about your place in the universe? Get over yourself. Yes, you're an inconsequential worm in the grand scope of history. But you're an inconsequential worm who makes shit up for a living, which means that you don't have to lift heavy boxes or ask people if they want fries with that. Grow up and get back to work.
Darren Shan
You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.
H. G. Wells
We do our job and go. See? That is what Death is for. We work out all our little brains and all our little emotions, and then this lot begins afresh. Fresh and fresh! Perfectly simple. What's the trouble?
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