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Life
«Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.»
«I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.»
«I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God»
Author: Igor Stravinsky
| About:
God,
Life,
Living
| Keywords:
anonymity, Bach, composing, in due time, suited, temperament
«Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| About:
Generosity,
Happiness,
Joy,
Life,
Social service
| Keywords:
definite, look upon, only if
«I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs»
«I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life,
Work
| Keywords:
die hard, harder, rejoice, sake, thoroughly, used, used up
«I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying,
Life
| Keywords:
came, deliberately, discover, essential, facts, facts of life, front, fronted, fronts, have-not, Into the Woods, lived, out front, Teach, The Facts of Life, went, wished, woods
«Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Life,
Love
| Keywords:
being, bring, bringing up, brings, bring on, consciousness, Consciousness only, dead, else, flowered, flowers, flower garden, garden, keep, loved, loving, richness, sunless, The Flowers, The Garden of the, warmth