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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
wisdom men house
You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house. C. S. Lewis
wisdom believe ideas
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it. C. S. Lewis
wisdom men virtue
It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous. C. S. Lewis
wisdom use emergencies
We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it. C. S. Lewis
wisdom entrepreneur intelligence
Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors. Alan Sugar
wisdom perspective
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Alan Kay
wisdom fun motherhood
Conventionality is not morality. Charlotte Bronte
wisdom standing
You are only as good as the woman you are standing beside. Charlie Chaplin
wisdom greatness love-is
Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. Charles de Gaulle
pain philosophy exercise
I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain. Carol Leifer
pain hate sadness
"Only if one loves this earth with unbending passion can one relieve one's sadness," don Juan said. "Warriors are always joyful because their love is unalterable and their beloved, the earth, embraces them and bestows upon them inconceivable gifts. The sadness belongs only to those who hate the very thing that gives shelter to their beings." Don Juan again caressed the ground with tenderness. "This lovely being, which is alive to its last recesses and understands every feeling, soothed me, it cured me of my pains, and finally when I had fully understood my love for it, it taught me freedom." Carlos Castaneda
pain grief warrior
... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them Carlos Castaneda
pain war grief
Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like the steady barrage on a trench in World War One, hours if it with no let-up for a moment. Thought is never static pain often is... is it not yet enough? C. S. Lewis
pain wake-up world
Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world. C. S. Lewis
pain recover
When you're young, you recover fast. I can take a lot of pain. Nick Brown
pain fate men
Now the pessimist proper is the most modest of men. ... under no circumstances does he presume to imagine that he, a mere unit of pain, can in any degree change or soften the remorseless words of fate. Agnes Repplier
pain regret years
Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret? Agnes Repplier
pain taken flower
Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers Charlotte Bronte