To understand something and to put that something into a form you can see with your own eyes are two completely different things.
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What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
Each and everyone of us is a being of limited duration: all of us eventually go down to defeat. But as Earnest Hemingway saw so clearly, the ultimate value of our lives is decided not by how we win but by how we lose.
Words turn into stone.
Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.
I spent thirty-three years as another man's shadow. I went everywhere he went. I helped him with everything he did. I was in a sense a part of him. When you live like that for a long time, you gradually lose track of what it is that you yourself really want out of life.
Strange and serious things, though, aren't they—earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, t…
This life is nothing but a short, painful dream. Thanks to His guidance, I have made it through this far.
His whole body—his skin, his bones—told him with absolute certainty that he was in someone's field of vision. So what? he thought. Let them look if they want to, whoever they are. All God's children can dance.
What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. I just happened to catch sight of it, and followed it, and clung to it, and in the end let it fly into still deeper darkness. I'm sure I'll never see it again.
"Anxiety? Well, what could be giving you anxiety, sweetie?" "Um, let's see..."
— Peter Gaffney, Peter Elwell, Daria Morgendorffer, Tracy Grandstaff, imdb.com
"Anxiety? Well, what could be giving you anxiety, sweetie?" "Um, let's see. Every aspect of my life?"
— Peter Gaffney, Peter Elwell, Daria Morgendorffer, Tracy Grandstaff, imdb.com
My goal is not to wake up at forty with the bitter realization that I've wasted my life in a job I hate, because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens.
— Peggy Nicoll, Daria Morgendorffer, Tracy Grandstaff, imdb.com
No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives — worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passers-by, but to how many do each…
— Seneca, amazon.com
When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.
Get a good night's sleep. That usually fixes it.
'You know something?' she said. 'What?' 'I'm completely empty.' 'Yeah?' 'Yeah.'
I've never once thought about how I was going to die. I can't think about it. I don't even know how I'm going to live.
A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It's free. So it can look like anything at all depending on what's inside the person looking at it.
It must give you a lot pleasure, but I don't suppose this talent of yours makes you lots of money.