#ture

The bee's life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water ↗

— Karl von Frisch

#earth #nature #life

Though you recite much scripture, If you are unaware and do not act according You are like a cowherd counting others' cattle, Not a sharer in the wanderer's life. ↗

— Anonymous

#buddhist #scripture #v- #life

Nature has certain mechanism to record all memories of every life being. ↗

— Toba Beta

#mechanism #memory #nature #record #universe

For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; and to explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousand and thousands. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#philosophy #soul #spirituality #truth #life

Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist? ↗

— Edith Pearlman

#future #life #life

They got a manure machine in there,” Keller said. He went up to the barn and peeked through a hole between tow boards. “On wheels. It’s fun to ride sometimes, when you don’t care how you smell. ↗

— Sandra Neil Wallace

#author-sandra-neil-wallace #cows #farm-life #friendship #humor

I learned that it's okay to feel the way I do: that my life has no meaning unless I have a boyfriend. A real man is like the perfect vampire-boy and all the perfect guys in Twue Wuv. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#anti-twilight #dark-humor #drugs #gluttony #heroin

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete ↗

— John Steinbeck

#wife #wifely-duty #life

Something else emerges from this discussion about us as human individuals: we're not fixed, stable intellects riding along peering at the world through the lenses of our eyes like the pilots of people-shaped spacecraft. We are affected constantly by what's going on around us. Whether our flexibility is based in neuroplasticity or in less dramatic aspects of the brain, we have to start acknowledging that we are mutable, persuadable and vulnerable to clever distortions, and that very often what we want to be is a matter of constant effort rather than attaining a given state and then forgetting about it. Being human isn't like hanging your hat on a hook and leaving it there, it's like walking in a high wind: you have to keep paying attention. You have to be engaged with the world. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#culture #human #humanity #life #perspective

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness. ↗

— F.R. Leavis

#reading #life