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life stories life-is
The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted... Carol Shields
life beautiful struggle
Writing is a struggle against silence. Carlos Fuentes
life strong truthful
What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life. Carlos Castaneda
life people important
I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer. Carlos Castaneda
life years bridges
Burn your bridges every 2 years. Carlos Castaneda
life order dies
One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for Carlos Castaneda
life responsibility desert
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it. Carlos Castaneda
life player games
Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world. C. S. Lewis
life faith creativity
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille
death warrior thinking
A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit. Carlos Castaneda
death warrior ideas
Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything. Carlos Castaneda
death warrior judging
A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he's clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything. Carlos Castaneda
death wisdom people
It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn’t matter. C. S. Lewis
death percentages cents
100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased. C. S. Lewis
death dying
There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading. Agnes Smedley
death past bird
So say it loud and let it ring We are all a part of everything The future, present and the past Fly on proud bird You're free at last Charlie Daniels
death suicide shots
They really are bad shots. Charles de Gaulle
death judging waiting
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day was; one cannot judge life until death. Charles de Gaulle
fear dare concern
He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present. Carol Shields
fear self levels
Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be. Carlos Castaneda
fear fourth memorial open possibilities snow stay
We have no fear we won't have enough snow to stay open through Memorial Day Weekend, and there's always the possibility we'll open for the Fourth of July. Right now the possibilities are endless. Savannah Cowley
fear sleep night
I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills. Agnes de Mille
fear adventure pride
It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone. Charlotte Bronte
fear inspire paradox
There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself! Charles Caleb Colton
fear fields abundance
The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance. Charles Caleb Colton
fear despise
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. Charles Caleb Colton
fear people takes
There is a lot of fear when an acquisition takes place. Most people are fiddling around with their resumes on their computers. Larraine Segil