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#life

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #life




Teaching our children to live a quiet, sane, and balanced life is one of the most important parental tasks of our day. ↗


— Brent L. Top


#parenting #life

And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little happy himself. He began to wonder whether he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with his life, whether he wasn't missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid because he wondered whether these unhappy people were contagious. ↗


— François Lelord


#unhappiness #life

Out of a hundred people: Those who always know better- 52 Doubting every step- all the rest Glad to lend a hand if it doesn’t take too long- as high as 49 Always good, because they can’t be otherwise- 4 maybe 5 Able to admire without envy- 18 Living in constant fear of something or someone- 77 Capable of happiness- 20 something tops Harmless singly, savage in crowds- half at least Wise after the fact- just a couple more than wise before it Taking only things from life- 30 (I wish I were wrong) Righteous- 35, which is a lot Righteous and understanding- 3 Worthy of compassion- 99 Mortal- 100 out of 100 (Thus far this figure still remains unchanged.) ↗


— Wisława Szymborska


#statistics #wisdom #life

Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing. ↗


— Cameron Conaway


#life #passions #writing #life

He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life. ↗


— Henning Mankell


#politeness #life

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much. ↗


— Eric Hoffer


#the-true-believer #life

It's always a little frightening to care about something... someone. What you have, you can lose. It can break, or be stolen. Or it might stop fitting. ↗


— L. Lee Lowe


#life

Sleep my little babby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure Find your name And buried treasure Face your life Its pain, its pleasure, Leave no path untaken. ↗


— Neil Gaiman


#life

Material things have closed boundaries; they are not accessible, cannot be penetrated, by things outside themselves. But one's existence as a spiritual being involves being and remaining oneself and at the same time admitting and transforming into oneself the reality of the world. No other material thing can be present in the space occupied by a house, a tree, or a fountain pen. But where there is mind, the totality of things has room; it is "possible that in a single being the comprehensiveness of the whole universe may dwell. ↗


— Josef Pieper


#mind #soul #spirituality #life

...That insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life. ↗


— Robert Louis Stevenson


#horror #life






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