#lesson

Life is not a recipe. Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules. People think they are. They look as if they are. They say, “Do this, not this. Add this, not that.” But, really, recipes are just suggestions that got written down. ↗

— Mario Batali

#life

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man. ↗

— Brian Herbert

#remembering #life

Life is short, Isobeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we'd run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it. So, why would it matter if I love him today or five years from now? ↗

— Nadège Richards

#life #love #regret #taking-chances #time

Que la vida es inmortal mientras se vive, mientras se está con vida. Que la inmortalidad no es una cuestión de más o menos tiempo, que no es una cuestión de inmortalidad, que es una cuestión de otra cosa que permanece ignorada. Que es tan falso decir que carece de principio y de fin como decir que empieza y termina en la vida del alma desde el momento en que participa del alma y de la prosecución del viento. Mirad las arenas muertas del desierto, el cuerpo muerto de los niños: la inmortalidad no pasa por ahí, se detiene y los esquiva. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#life-lessons #life

I wanted a life full of intrigue and mystery, new environments, and new people...[a] temporary life with no fear of being trapped, ↗

— Addy Stevens

#life-lessons #personal-growth #life

I’m a dinosaur, he thought, lumbering through a world where truthtellers are despised. ↗

— Tess Gerritsen

#truth #truth-tellers #world #life

La vida es esencialmente injusta. De eso no cabe la menor duda. Pero creo que incluso de las situaciones injustas es posible extraer lo que de "justicia" haya en ellas. Puede que ello cueste tiempo y esfuerzo. Y puede que ese tiempo y esfuerzo sean en vano. Decidir si merece o no la pena intentar extraer esa "justicia" es algo que, queda al criterio de cada uno. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits. ↗

— Lois Lenski

#lesson-for-life #life

It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth. ↗

— Kathleen Basford

#life

...I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me." - Elizabeth Frankenstein ↗

— Mary Shelley

#life