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“So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we are on this earth. We forget that there is a reason for all the pain and the struggle.”

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Book:Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews

Source: Walk in Balance: Meditations with Lynn Andrews

“I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it.”

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Author:Marilyn Monroe

“Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.”

Life Helping Home Design Illusion Symbols Fallen Goods Cash Now And Then Coincidence Parallels Salesman

Author:Glen Duncan

“Life compulsively dangled the possibility of life. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.”

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Author:Glen Duncan

“Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.”

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Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the wax diminish. It melts away - a symbol for life. [...] Candles have long been central to worship. By lighting them we announce that we are entering into a different sense of time. Not the usual ticktock time of daily living, but sacred time, a timeless time.”

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Author:Gunilla Brodde Norris

“Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should be its protector and life companion.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life's endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life's beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.”

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Book:The River of Winged Dreams

Source: The River of Winged Dreams

“A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.”

Life Bigs Remember Forget Too Much Disaster Symbols Big Things Small Things

Book:Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology