#life

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#fun #life #nature #quiet #stillness

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#life #zen #life

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#life #time #age

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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Every one of us is a minor tragedy. Most of us learn to cope. ↗

— Elizabeth Bear

#drama #life #age

Now I wonder if it means that the future is a place, or like a place, that I could go to; that is go to in some way other than just getting older. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#future #life #place #time #age

But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. ↗

— Bill Bryson

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The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#books #life #morality #youth #age

She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#getting-over-it #life #moving-on #age

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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