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«Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter.»
«Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.»
Author: Shel Silverstein | About: Children, Cute, Dreams, Life, Listening | Keywords: close, close to
«Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.»
«Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.»
Author: Helen Hayes (Actress) | About: Life | Keywords: good shape, introductions
«Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.»
«Life without a friend is like death without a witness»
Author: Spanish Proverb | About: Death and dying, Life | Keywords: witness, witnessing
«Life without absorbing occupation is hell.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard | About: Life | Keywords: absorbing, occupation
«Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.»
«Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.»
«Life without the courage for death is slavery»