life-and-living

Live deep instead of fast.

Your promise is someone's hope. Keep your promises.

Numquam illegitimi carborundum --"Never let the bastards grind you down._-- my old Latin prof Dr. Kuk''s version, other minor variations out there.

In a company of children and grown-ups, the latter are those who should demonstrate good manners and always let the children speak first.

I now view life as a complex and unpredictable affair that cannot be mastered. It can be embraced. It can be negotiated more or less skillfully. But mastered? Not a chance.

People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we string them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true." She glances back at Seth. "We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him

Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity

The inability to rise above one's inherited ism and ideology makes one live and die a fool, just a folly.

The moment when your heart__ rhythm synchronises with the chants of the holy temple, you find God in your soul. It was noisy yet peaceful. They were all dancing in the packed hall, with eyes closed and hands swinging up in the air. It was as if the motto of life was nothing but to enjoy this very moment and taste the love of the almighty.

You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

I know it's me that needs this moment. Your hand to hold my heart still cares. A thought I will hold when I wake in the morning, when I turn to you and you're not there.

Some wounds were worth bearing for the healing they brought.

Then nothing became something, and I was born, and I wrought great havoc in the world in the time allotted to me, and I returned to nothingness

everything thing in life goes really really very very deep and ally you have to show the world is ,its just on the SURFACE

Don__ complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering

If we don't cherish those who stay near, what do we have? Only longing.

Endeavour to appreciate life while you experience it, for some will never experience life again, because they are six feet inside the grave.