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Quotes About Life

Isn't it true that there is a rare kind of person who perceives, as does a good dog, that life is doing something meaningful, and who discovers what it is and goes about doing it with a spirit of moderate hustle, and there is a not rare kind of person who perceives none of this and who goes about doing what is necessary in a spirit of aggrievedness?
~ Padgett Powell
Maybe that old adage about not being able to have a good apartment, a good relationship, and a good job at the same time is true.
~ Padma Lakshmi
If you want to know your past life, look at your present condition. If you want to know your future life, look at your present actions.
~ Unknown
The moments of our life are not expendable, And the [possible] circumstances of death are beyond imagination. If you do not achieve an undaunted confident security now, What point is there in your being alive, O living creature?
~ Unknown
Although your mind lies beyond birth and death, this illusory body does die, so practice while remembering death […] The guru said: Human beings don't think of death. A man's life is like a pile of chaff or a feather on a mountain pass. The demon Lord of Death comes suddenly, like an avalanche or a storm. Disturbing emotions are like straw catching fire. Your life-span decreases like the shadows of the setting sun.
~ Unknown
Furthermore, if semen flows without any [blissful] sensation, And it is interspersed with quicksilver-like globules, the size of sesame seeds, It is said that one will die {imminently]
~ Unknown
Paladin: age is the price of living.
~ Unknown
There is no doubt that Einstein's pipe was his closest associate, while others--including wife and family--were never permitted the illusion that they would ever be at the center of his life.
~ Unknown
It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own.
~ Pam Brown
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
~ Pam Brown
A man will strategically organize his life in boxes and then spend most of his time in the boxes he can succeed in.
~ Pam Farrel
Thay ??i quan ?i?m, thay ??i cu?c ??i
~ Pam Grout
You better have fun. Because you're going to be gone in a minute.
~ Pam Grout
Could a person mourn and be joyful simultaneously? I understood it as the challenge of the twenty-first century. Maybe it was simply what being a grown up meant.
~ Pam Houston
but for the rest of my own life, I want to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief without
~ Pam Houston
as long as we are living, there is always time to expand the story.
~ Pam Houston
It's hard for anybody to put their finger on the moment when life changes from being something that is nearly all in front of you to something that happened while your attention was elsewhere.
~ Pam Houston
Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think
~ Pam Jenoff
I don't. We each have free will. There may be higher purpose, but the actual path each of us takes to get there, and whether we choose to accept it at all, is up to us." She turns to me. "If you can't let go of that fear of making the wrong decision, you will never be able to take the chances you must take to live life fully.
~ Pam Jenoff
A veces la vida que imaginamos no dura tanto como creemos.
~ Pam Jenoff
If you can't let go of that fear of making the wrong decision, you will never be able to take the chances you must take to live life fully.
~ Pam Jenoff
One day you may feel differently," she replies. "Sometimes our forever life does not last as long as we think.
~ Pam Jenoff
most valuable lessons in life: love unconditionally, express your true feelings, respect others' territory, protect the family, get enough sleep, and always keep an eye open for mice!
~ Unknown
Very comforting, that-choosing your truth. Makes life quite tolerable when lived on such terms, does it not? Well, at least for a bit.... Until one brushes up against another's truth whose fur does not lie in the same direction.
~ Unknown