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Letter "L" » Life
«Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.»
Author: Alan Watts
(Interpreter, Thinker, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Meaning,
Philosophy,
Universe,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
fundamental, go together, secrets
«Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry»
«Real life in Paris, the waiting-for-a-bus kind of existence that goes on without ever crossing the tracks to the city's elegance and worldly ambitions, moves on its own, without manifestoes or injunctions to stop it.»
Author: John Vinocur
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
ambitions, bus, crossing, Crossing the, elegance, injunction, injunctions, Paris, real life, tracks, worldly
«Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.»
«Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.»
«Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.»
Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
| About:
Death and dying,
Life,
Mankind,
Youth
| Keywords:
alas, delay, fang, fangs, grinning, in a moment, obtain, perishes, release, surprising, The Conduct of Life, unstable
«Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.»
«Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.»
«Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Advertising,
Life
| Keywords:
contemptible, For every, luxury, manner, outward, possessions, publicity, The Body, unassuming
«Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.»
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