#life

Pretend those around you are deaf to your words. Let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions. This way of living ensures the potency of your message is delivered and serves as a gauge against our verbal nonsense. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#communication #deaf #inspiration #life #communication

In my carpet bag are the mushrooms that I gathered in the woods. With two fingers I pick up a piece and look at it. Then I take a bite and wait for my body to react. Now I'm in a better mood. In a short time I'll be dead. Or alive. I'm not always sure that there's any difference. ↗

— Peter H. Fogtdal

#life #mushrooms #poison #death

Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#hedgehogs #life #movement #death

Der Tod verändert auch die Lebenden. ↗

— Markus Heitz

#life-and-death #death

Just before the Clear Air Turbulence went back into warp and its crew sat down at the table, the ship expelled the limp corpse of Zallin. Where it had found a live man in a suit, it left a dead youth in shorts and a tattered shirt, tumbling and freezing while a thin shell of air molecules expanded around the body, like an image of departing life. ↗

— Iain Banks

#death #life #shell #space #vacuum

New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning. ↗

— Robert Asprin

#day #essentially #life #midnight #morning

I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#death

Shema Israel Adonai Ehohenu Adonai Echad. ↗

— Felipe

#death #life #death

Je reste optimiste tout en me préparant au pire, maman, ça te semble bien comme compromis ? ↗

— Alice Kuipers

#life #death

Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#death #god #life #mortality #death