#beg

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#day #each #earth #fullest #had

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food. ↗

— Satish Kumar

#bowls #dry #food #liquid #monks

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#dangerous #enters #first #her #into

We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

#body #computer #devices #human #human body

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. ↗

— Harold Kushner

#book #further #get #good #good book

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#change #dialogue #matters #policy #such

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation. ↗

— Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

#along #assume #begun #community #dialogue

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah. ↗

— William Tecumseh Sherman

#christmas #city #gift #i #present

Since the end of the Cold War two main nuclear powers have begun to make big reductions in their nuclear arsenals. Each of them is dismantling about 2,000 nuclear warheads a year. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#arsenals #begun #big #cold #cold war

So I ask the nuclear powers to abandon the out-of-date thinking of the Cold War period and take a fresh look. Above all, I appeal to them to bear in mind the long-term threat that nuclear weapons pose to humankind and to begin action towards their elimination. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#above #action #appeal #ask #bear