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Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#gossip #india #life #mumbay #wisdom

I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same wall between my soul's holy of holies and other people, even my wife, I'll accuse her in the same way of my own fear and then regret it, I'll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray--but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it! ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one. ↗

— Preston Sturges

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If I had thought the beef marrow might be a hell of a lot of work for not much difference, I needn’t have worried. The taste of the marrow is rich, meaty, intense in a nearly-too-much way. In my increasingly depraved state, I could think of nothing at first but that it tasted like really good sex. But there was something more than that, even. What it really tastes like is life, well lived. Of course the cow I got marrow from had a fairly crappy life – lots of crowds and overmedication and bland food that might or might not have been a relative. But deep in his or her bones, there was a capacity for feral joy. I could taste it. ↗

— Julie Powell

#cooking #cows #food #life #marrow

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it. ↗

— Mark Helprin

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Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#nature #poetry #wisdom #life

Writing is storytelling and all of us are authors, not just of words but of reality. You are the author of your life, so go out and live! Then never quit writing about it! ↗

— Ben Mikaelsen

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What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve. ↗

— William Kent Krueger

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و انسان عجيب موجودي است كه در دايره اي زندگي بدنبال گوشه مي گردد!ا ↗

— Mohammad Hossein Khosh Bayan

#life #life

I keep thinking it's going to come back when I least expect it. When I'm at my happiest. So I'm always afraid to be happy." Zane looks out at the horizon. "You know, there are so many things that can go wrong in this world, you could spend your whole life worrying about them and forget to appreciate every moment you have with someone. Then, you're like, 'God, why wasn't I thankful for what I had when I had it?'" He glances over at me. "You know what the secret to a happy life is?" I shake my head, silent tears falling down my cheeks. He squeezes my hand. "No regrets. Just live in the moment. ↗

— Nicole Christie

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