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Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime ↗

— Samuel Butler

#existence #life #lifetime #living #sensible

When people say that animal rescuers are crazy, what they really mean is that animal rescuers share a number of fundamental beliefs that makes them easy to marginalize. Among those is the belief that Rene Descartes was a jackass. ↗

— Steven Kotler

#animal-rescuers #descartes #dogs #life

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You can't ever put the pieces back together after they hit home. ↗

— Amaleka G. McCall

#life

A humble man will always receive the best that others have to offer; for he recognizes the truth ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#life #truth #life

Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again. ↗

— Gail Carriger

#life

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#life

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours. ↗

— Barbara Hambly

#religion #life

...But we also believe that part of our mission in life is to find our bliss and follow it. Life is a precious and delicate gift. How much of that gift do we squander out of fear? ↗

— Dianne Sylvan

#mission #purpose #wicca #life

Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma pessoa se salvar, senão… estou perdido. ↗

— José de Almada Negreiros

#hoarding #life #livrarias #livros #reading

Perhaps the day will come where the validity of one's spirituality will be judged not by the correctness of one's theology but by the authenticity of one's spiritual life. When that day comes, an authentically spiritual Buddhist and an authentically spiritual Christian may find that they have more in common with each other than they do with those in their respective religions who have failed to develop their spirituality. (Beyond Religion, p. 98) ↗

— David N. Elkins

#buddhism #christianity #spirituality #life