life-and-living

We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife

And remember, it truly is a great Life

To strive to better oneself is natural and expected. To abandon oneself in an effort to attain a new self is foolish and unhealthy.

Sometimes,just do what your mind tells you to do.Just don't care about people.Because,neither you can afford loosing that time nor people will care after sometime.So just be who you are.

Life is about making good choices, Matt. One after the other. They pile up day after day. It's only when you look back that you can see what the choices led to. What you're able to stand on.

Jöns: But feel, to the very end, the triumph of being alive!

I've nothing against people. Just a***oles. But then, most people are.

Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life.

Success is attached to mentality of a man's maturity

What fun it would be," he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!

I slip away into the night, I won't have much to take. Only the story of this life, with you, I leave behind

I say to life, "You are very hard", and I also say: "We are blind, we prefer to be blind. It is easier...". Life has to be hard to have any affect on us; even now we hardly notice it. Beyond that can one go? I must. I add, "We are also blind to the miracles of good that come to us. We hardly heed them, we even protest against them". Then I am left where I was, appalled by the hardness of life, knowing we are forced to be unwilling heroes. Suddenly I wonder--is all hardness justified because we are so slow in realizing that life was meant to be heroic? Greatness is required of us. That is life's aim and justification, and we poor fools have for centuries been trying to make it convenient, manageable, pliant to our will. It is also peaceful and tender and funny and dull. Yes, all that.

Do you know why we show respect to life when it shows none to us? Family is the answer

There are hundred reasons to worry but the only way to keep out of this 'net' of worry is to pray.

The hallway felt like time itself, and Patricia Buckingham and I were standing at opposite ends-her looking back on all she'd seen, me wondering what lay ahead.

There is a lot of unhappiness in this world. Try not to feed it.

This isn__ like a job we have while we go to college. This is what we like _ feed ourselves with.

There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language.