#if

My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on. ↗

— Olivia Williams

#actor #always #beautiful #because #cafe

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#average #coming #economists #health #income

Death is the saddest part of life. ↗

— deAnna Lea

#life #part-of-life #sad #death

All over the world, people are asked to sacrifice in the effort to win a war, but they are never asked what they would sacrifice in order to end a war. ↗

— K.M. Douglas

#humanity #life #peace #sacrifice #war

Life is a winking light in the darkness. ↗

— Hayao Miyazaki

#life

We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance. ↗

— Susan Glaspell

#death #life #death

Con los ojos fijos en Napoleón pensaba en la insignificancia de la grandeza, en la insignificancia de la vida cuyo objeto nadie comprendía, en la insignificancia mayor aún de la muerte cuyo sentido permanecía oculto e impenetrable a los humanos ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #muerte #napoleon #vida #death

Awareness is a choiceless consciousness. Awareness is the capacity to embrace, accept and include both joy and sadness, love and aloneness, light and darkness, male and female qualities and life and death. Through saying “yes” and accepting both tendencies and including whatever aspect that happens in the moment, we meet our unlimited and boundless inner being. The inner man and woman need to find their own independence and integrity. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#aloneness #awareness #darkness #death #female

... as we travel again between life and death, Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers, None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us . . . ↗

— Jay Woodman

#dream #layers #life #travel #wake

Du jour où il nait, l'homme commence à mourir; c'est la vérité qu'incarne la Mère. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#life #purpose-of-life #death