“It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so - and all the more - what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is - blind or not - a good world to live in, a promising universe. . . . We once thought we lived on God's footstool, it may be a throne.” WorldLifeGivingMayStoriesNightUniverseStarsDarkRaceWonderfulBirthCreaturesCapableBlindAccidentsTalesFairyMeaninglessThronesMarvelousGiving BirthCoolingArabianFairy StoriesJinnArabian NightsBrief Life Author:Clarence Day
“Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.” IfsLifeLongAbleWantedCreaturesFairsEssenceSeriesLong LifeCrushedLiliesNot FairPadsResourcefulNimbleHoppingLily Pads Book:The Winner Source: The Winner
“I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.” LifeReasonFactsSuccessPowerfulImpossibleDyingDangerousGoes OnHealthyActivityDemandCreaturesPainfulActiveImpulseEggsIdleOrganismsSuccess In LifeObscureInactionLiving CreaturesHensRecuperation Author:H. L. Mencken
“Life is everywhere. The earth is throbbing with it - it's like music. The plants, the creatures, the ones we see, the ones we don't see, it's like one, big, pulsating symphony.” LifeBigsEarthLife IsCreaturesPlantSymphony Author:Diane Frolov
“And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.” IfsLifeWellsEyeGivenTasteCreaturesStonesStuckMudStalkingWhimLiving Creatures Book:Housekeeping: A Novel Source: Housekeeping: A Novel
“someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to.” WorldLifeChildrenLongAbleParentChangeSecretKnowledgeCreaturesRegardOur ChildrenForgottenSomedayManipulationManipulateRevealingMessengersSecret LifeDeepness Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence
“Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.” LifeInspirationalNeedsMindFirstsKindSpiritChangeViewsHealingCreaturesTransformationNotionIncludingCreatorInsightCrucialSpiritual Transformation Author:Nhat Hanh
“Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in life after death! Seek for the life within the life! The medusa of Turritopsis nutricula is biologically immortal and this little creature is a big inspiration for us! He who thinks positively reaches his target!” ThinkingMenLifeYearsBelieveLittlesProblemBigsInspirationMillionsCreaturesImmortalTargetPositivelyAfter DeathLife After DeathThink PositivelyMedusa Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Life is a double-faced creature; one face is tragedy, the other one is comedy. We have no way but to face the first face with dignity!” WayLifeFirstsFacesLife IsComedyCreaturesDignityTragedy Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one to the other. Remind us of Stravinsky. Know the names of plants and flying creatures. Hunt gauzy wings with snares of gauze. Make science pay tribute. Have a butterfly known by your name.” IfsKnowsLifeCountryPlayNamesLanguagePayKnownCreaturesWingsPlantActiveChessFlyingMetalsButterflyHuntsTributeTradersSnaresStravinskyPrecious Metal Author:Vladimir Nabokov