Im bored so heres some quotes Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious something is, the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world; and the more we love it, the more we are saddened that it is like finely powdered salt that runs away through the fingers, or is puffed away by the wind, or is washed away by the rain. ~Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. ~Baker Brownell, The College and the Community, 1952 Life is not like a box of chocolates. Its more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow. ~Author Unknown There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. ~José Ortega y Gasset The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. ~Peter De Vries, Let Me Count the Ways, 1965 Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotics Notebook, 1960 A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure. ~Robert Louis Stevenson I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin Star Trek fans usually know the metaphors of life better than most mainstream poets. ~Terri Guillemets Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart. ~H. Ross Perot A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life. ~Friedrich Hegel Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of mans existence. ~Joseph Wood Krutch Life is one big judgment call. (And a neverending series of little ones.) ~Terri Guillemets Lifeless with a heartbeat. ~Daniel, @blindedpoet There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. Deepak Chopra I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but Im not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I dont know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why were here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I cant figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I dont have to know an answer.... I dont feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesnt frighten me. ~Richard Phillips Feynman Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ~Timothy Fuller The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Song of Love, the Song of Hate, the Songs of Praise and of Thanksgiving; Ive learned them all, but there remains one called the Melody of Living. ~Frederic Ridgely Torrence, The House of a Hundred Lights: A Psalm of Experience After Reading a Couplet of Bidpai, 1899 Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. Were looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens. ~Jason Q., from generationterrorists Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes. ~Luigi Pirandello There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. ~Robert Louis Stevenson The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. ~H.L. Mencken Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. ~Agnes Law Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ~Ovid Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work — that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams Life is a series of collisions with the future. ~José Ortega y Gasset To the student I would say, Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end theres a tough essay question. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651 When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that. ~Author Unknown Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so youll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I cant stand it. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust — we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ~Albert Einstein, in The Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929 After a lifetime of deep thought, Ive decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot Jack Palance: Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else dont mean shit. Billy Crystal: Yeah, but whats that one thing? Jack Palance: Thats what youve got to figure out. ~From the movie City Slickers Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. ~Dennis Wholey Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. ~Crowfoot, 1890, as quoted in Catch the Whisper of the Wind compiled by Cheewa James Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on. ~Robert Brault Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers? ~Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal, 1950 Life is great. Dont let circumstances and society fool you into believing its not. ~Terri Guillemets God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, hes stuck with so many bad actors who dont know how to play funny. ~Garrison Keillor Look, I dont want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if youre alive youve got to flap your arms and legs, youve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or youre not alive. ~Mel Brooks Unbeing dead isnt being alive. ~e.e. cummings Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~Brendan Gill Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up. ~Robert Brault Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally youre a portrait in the background. ~Robert Brault The blanket of life is kind and warm for those who can find its snuggle. ~Terri Guillemets When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash — at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the newness, the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance. ~Thomas Merton
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