Posted by: Andrea Manfrè
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
These men moved the world, and so can we all. Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation.
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
The whole is in the small things: the child is small but contains the man, the mind is restricted and it creates thought, the eye is but a dot but it embraces spaces.
You'll always have to face critisism!
They'll talk badly about you!
It'll be hard for you to meet someone
to whom you'll do fine as you are!
So live, do what your heart tells you to!
Compare life to a theatre play
without an initial rehearsal!
Dance, sing, laugh, living intensely
every day, every moment of your life,
before the show's over without any clapping!
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
They think I'm mad because I'm not willing to sell my days for gold... and I think them crazy because they think my days may have a price.
The artifice of the happy endings in stories always annoyed my Nini; she is convinced that in life there are no endings, but boundaries, wandering here and there, tripping over, getting lost.