“We value love not because it's stronger than death but because it's weaker. Say what you want about love: death will finish it. You will not go on loving in the grave, not in any physical way that will at all resemble love as we know it on earth. The perishable nature of love is what gives love its importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.” IfsKnowsWayWantLoveGivingDoeEarthValuesLove IsOur LivesGoes OnImportanceStrongerWhat You WantGravesEndlessLove Death Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.” SometimesSpiritPerfectOur LivesExpressionGoes OnPermanentInjuryClimbsAffirmationHere And NowRebuildingPerfect LoveWreckage Author:Richard Bach
“The rules your parents teach you to live by are very different than the rules the world actually runs by. Most of the conventional wisdom is not only wrong, it's a lie told to us by people who want to control us. It doesn't help us, it helps them. Pretty much everything we're told as children (and adults, really) by the established power structures in our lives are made up fairytales us to reinforce that control: Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, fat-free frozen dinners, religion, and metering lights on the highway--the list goes on” PeopleWorldWantChildrenMadeDifferentHelpingLightRunningLyingParentTeachOur LivesGoes OnAdultsStructureDinnerListsTeethFatsFairyLive ByConventionalEasterFrozenHighwaysSantaFairytaleSanta ClausBunniesConventional WisdomTooth FairyEaster Bunny Book:Hilarity Ensues Source: Hilarity Ensues
“... Providence conducts us with so much kindness through the different periods of our life, that we scarcely feel the change; our days glide gently and imperceptibly along, like the motion of the hour-hand, which we cannot discover. ... we advance gradually; we are the same to-day as yesterday, and to-morrow as to-day: thus we go on, without perceiving it, which is a miracle of the Providence I adore.” FeelsDifferentHandsHoursKindnessOur LivesGoes OnPeriodsMiracleYesterdayProvidenceAdoreMorrow Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
“We all want to inspire! As we go on our life's journey, some people inspire us and in turn, we would like to do something to inspire other people.” PeopleWantTurnsOur LivesJourneyInspireGoes OnInspire Others Author:Barbara Padilla
“"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.” WorldChildrenStillsWarHumanityFallNextMorningOur LivesGoes OnHorrorWake UpFalling In LoveCrueltyUps & Downs Author:Paul Auster
“Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.” HumansChildrenReasonBornDarkHellForeverOur LivesSkyGoes OnColdBearsBoundsHeavyFatsSmokeLackingOblivionEvent HorizonSuffocating Author:Alan Moore
“Many of us get many messages in our lives, or think we get them. As long as the message is regarding our own selves, go on doing what you please. But when it is in regard to our contact with and behavior to others, think a hundred times before you act upon it-and then you will be safe.” ThinkingLongSelfOur LivesGoes OnPleaseSafeBehaviorMessagesHundredRegardContact Author:Swami Vivekananda
“No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones, practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.” IfsShouldHardNaturalChanceSimpleStudyOur LivesGoes OnExerciseSentencesLeapBreaking DownTranscendenceAccuracyFugue Author:Adrienne Rich
“One of the things I've realized in my decades on this planet is that the world goes on no matter what, and if we are to survive with any amount of grace we all need little oases of tranquility and sanity in our lives. For me, an evening of wine in good company is just such a place.” IfsWorldNeedsLittlesMatterCompanyGraceOur LivesPlanetsGoes OnAmountNo Matter WhatWineDecadesEveningSanityTranquilityGood CompanyOasis Author:Dave Chambers
“The possibility to go on indefinitely with our lives may become a reality and it will present us with a temptation.” MayRealityOur LivesPossibilityGoes OnTemptation Author:Torbjorn Tannsjo