#ife

I make a joke of it, but... but I'm afraid of death." He straightened up and turned to look into Joseph's eyes. Joseph saw the fear there and was shocked by the intensity of it. "Are you afraid to die, Joseph?" Joseph considered for a moment, then shook his head. "I'm not afraid to now, but then I'm not dying now. When I come to that moment, I will probably be... what's the right word? Maybe frightened in a way that you're frightened when an experience lies before you you've never had. "No more than that?" "I hope not. ↗

— Gilbert Morris

#death #death-and-dying #dying #fear #death

The one thing that you can be sure about of what mankind has learned over the centuries...is that he has paid attention to none of it. ↗

— Tonny K. Brown

#experience

It's a story you can break down and analyze and find analogies and lessons in it, and then it becomes a story about life. But you can also experience it whole, and then it's not a story about life. Then it is life. ↗

— Noam Shpancer

#story #experience

In God's economy, nothing is slag, nothing is wasted. Every relationship we build is a teacher, every experience we have is a coach. In every scar there is a lesson. In every memory there lives potential to make more. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#inspirational #learning #life #experience

Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion. ↗

— Robin Wasserman

#science-fiction #experience

Mind you, I don’t know why people get so fixated on happiness, which always eludes them, when there are so many other invigorating experiences available, like rage, jealousy, disgust, and so forth.” - Some Hope ↗

— Edward St. Aubyn

#life-lessons #experience

All the GOOD things doesn't comes in a single package. ↗

— Nikhil Anubhav Minz

#experience

I think the more Knowledgeable you are, the great fear you will have, because you have enough knowledge to know what exactly you will face and haw huge it's indeed!! ↗

— Doaa Gamil

#experience

Let's say you had to report back to heaven at the end of your time on earth, tell them what your personal allotment of experience had been: wouldn't it sound like Poppy's speech? The smell of radiator dust on a winter morning, the taste of hot maple syrup ... ↗

— Anne Tyler

#experience

I abandoned the assigned problems in standard calculus textbooks and followed my curiosity. Wherever I happened to be--a Vegas casino, Disneyland, surfing in Hawaii, or sweating on the elliptical in Boesel's Green Microgym--I asked myself, "Where is the calculus in this experience? ↗

— Jennifer Ouellette

#life-lessons #mathematics #experience