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Quotes About Life

Here was the authentic voice of the Slav. These people hold that the way to make life better is to add good things to it, whereas in the West we hold that the way to make life better is to take bad things away from it.
~ Rebecca West
but it is not what one does so much as the way that while one does it time runs past forever.
~ Rebecca West
To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.
~ Rebecca West
Every event of any magnitude changes life unpredictably.
~ Rebecca West
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.--Quoted in Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
~ Rebecca West
Honour often seems a highly artificial convention, but life in any level of society where it has been abandoned astonishes by its tortuousness
~ Rebecca West
I am writing all this down in full knowledge that it will not now seem important, for the reason that that is just what marks off that past from our present. Everything was then of importance. Everything enjoyable had an equal value. In life we were not divided. Life itself was not divided.
~ Rebecca West
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
~ Rebecca West
Perché mai la vita moderna ha generato orrori al cui confronto le vecchie tragedie sembrano spettacoli per bambini? Forse perché l'umanità in cerca di avventura ha cambiato troppo il mondo esterno che genera la vita.
~ Rebecca West
Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.
~ Rebecca West
She had treated her life as a room that had to be completely refurnished.
~ Rebecca West
Another reason the "Are you still writing?" question is so hard to answer is that to ask me "Are you still writing?" is like asking "Are you still breathing?" Writing is the way I stay aware of being alive, the way I find out what I'm thinking, the way I understand the world.
~ Reeve Lindbergh
The feminine is the feeling part of us, our deepest intuition, our sense of community and connection. Additionally, it is a sense of spiritual morality and consciousness. The feminine is life. It may shock you to hear that she does not care about production, accomplishment, domination, assertiveness, or winning. Those are masculine values. On the contrary, she favors enjoyment, inclusion, surrender, and sustainability.
~ Regena Thomashauer
There is no human alive today who was not created and held inside the living altar of a woman.
~ Regena Thomashauer
our dreams, our feelings. In short, it's the absence of pussy. The feminine is the feeling part of us, our deepest intuition, our sense of community and connection. Additionally, it is a sense of spiritual morality and consciousness. The feminine is life. It may shock you to hear that she does not care about production, accomplishment, domination, assertiveness, or winning. Those are masculine values. On the contrary, she
~ Regena Thomashauer
Only upon death does an organism reach equilibrium with its inanimate environment.
~ Reginald H. Garrett
How can someone be wise who isn't even remotely happy?
~ Reinaldo Arenas
La gran Humanidad no tolera la belleza, quizá porque no puede vivir sin ella; el horror de la fealdad avanza cada día a pasos acelerados.
~ Reinaldo Arenas
Als Abenteurer habe ich weder gegen die Natur angekämpft noch mich in ihr verloren. Ich habe gelernt, in ihr zu lesen, sie als gegeben zu respektieren und nicht weiter mit dem Leben zu hadern. Damit bin ich zu meinen Erkenntnissen über die Menschennatur gekommen und zu dem Mut, den Sinn in meinem Tun selbst zu definieren. Niemand hat mich dazu gezwungen. Ständig in der Wildnis unterwegs und vor das Nichts gestellt, zwingt uns die Natur zur Besinnung auf uns selbst.
~ Reinhold Messner
Wir müssen uns Milarepa als glücklichen Menschen vorstellen, so wie Albert Camus uns Sisyphos beschreibt. Auch mein Weg, mein Optimismus, mein Humor, meine Lebensfreude sind zuallererst der Fähigkeit geschuldet, Sinn zu stiften. Sind doch Sinn und das Absurde untrennbar miteinander verwoben. Wie Leben und Tod auch.
~ Reinhold Messner
Ich hatte keinen Lebensplan. Die Begeisterung für ein Leben als Abenteurer hatte mich früh schon beflügelt, sie trieb mich immer weiter an, ließ mich dafür kämpfen, selbstbestimmt leben zu dürfen.
~ Reinhold Messner
Unser Leben ist wie ein Bogen eingespannt zwischen Geburt und Tod. Wer sich seines Endes dabei bewusst ist, kann intensiver leben, seine Ideen wie Pfeile genauer und weiter schießen. Diese Art Zielsicherheit gehört zur Kunst des Lebens. Sie besteht nicht nur darin, all seine Fähigkeiten optimal zu nutzen, sie gilt vielmehr selbst Ziel zu sein.
~ Reinhold Messner
Ein glückliches und ein sinnerfülltes Dasein sind deckungsgleich.
~ Reinhold Messner
weiß ich, dass es so viele Lebenswege gibt wie Menschen auf dieser Erde. Den eigenen Weg zu finden ist die Kunst schlechthin, denn nur auf unserem Weg sind wir stark.
~ Reinhold Messner