“Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have, and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people, their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely, so openly, so unambivalently, is for many children a unique and lasting experience.” PeopleFirstsChildrenFactsLove IsEmotionOur LivesChildhoodDogReturnUniqueRemainsLasting Author:Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
“Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.” CountryFormOur LivesCivilizationRootsRemainsUrban Book:A Woman Talking Source: A Woman Talking
“When the light of the sun shines through a prism it is broken into beautiful colours, and when the prism is shattered, still the light remains. So does the life of life shine resplendent in the forms of our friends, and so, when their forms are broken, still their life remains; and in that life we are united with them; for the life of their life is also our life, and we are one with them by ties indissoluble.” DoeStillsLightBeautifulFormLife IsUnitedSunOur LivesBrokenRemainsShiningTiesColourShatteredSun ShinesPrisms Author:Felix Adler
“I think the challenge for humans remains the same as it has always been: to learn the skills of kindness, compassion, and love. Without these sacred skills, all technology can do is grow the shadows in our lives.” ThinkingHumansGrowsCan DoChallengesCompassionKindnessTechnologyOur LivesSkillsShadowAnd LoveRemainsSacred Author:Alexander Weinstein
“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.” HumansLittlesSpiritWaterPrinciplesOur LivesCuttingAdventureCivilizationOriginalsRemainsEnvironmentalBreadLuxuryWildernessBetraySparesHuman Spirit Book:Desert Solitaire Source: Desert Solitaire
“How many of us will be saved the pain of seeing the most important things in our lives disappearing from one moment to the next? I don't just mean people, but our ideas and dreams too: we might survive a day, a week, a few years, but we're all condemned to lose. Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive the mortal blow. The perfect crime - for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found...they too are the victims of the reality they created.” PeopleKnowsYearsMeanImportantIdeasSoulMomentsDreamBodyRealityMightPainJoyNextFoundLosesPerfectPartyOur LivesAliveSeeingWeekCrimeVictimRemainsImportant ThingsBlowDisappearSavedGuiltyMortalsMotiveSooner Or LaterMean PeopleIdeas And DreamsPerfect Crime Author:Paulo Coelho
“In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.” InspirationalSoulFeelingsBodyLife IsIndividualLanguageStrongRoomsOur LivesSolitudeEssentialsRemainsCommunicateIntuitionSentencesSubstanceSpiteLockedPerpetualSolitaryThoughts And FeelingsLocked UpConfinementSoul And BodySolitary Confinement Book:Complete Essays: 1920-1925 Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925
“and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to yourself in a glimmer of rainfall or frost, the burnt smell of autumn, a meeting of parallel lines, and know you were someone else for the longest time, pretending you knew where you were, like a diffident tourist, lost on the one main square, and afraid to enquire.” KnowsLostLinesDarkOur LivesSeaRemainsMeetingsSmellNoiseAutumnPretendingSquaresPaleParallelsTouristsFrostRainfallParallel Lines Author:John Burnside
“Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.” PeopleFeelsWritingLongSometimesMomentsRememberMotherMemoriesOur LivesWrittenHusbandRemainsSacredDisappearPreservesMy HusbandStrongestMuseFrivolousRemember MeThose We LoveAll That Remains Author:Marge Piercy
“For a great many people, the evening is the most enjoyable part of the day. Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?” PeopleIfsShouldTryingMightForeverOur LivesAdviceGainsBlameRemainsCeaseEveningGreat MenLooking BackOutlookPositive OutlookEnjoyable Book:The Remains of the Day Source: The Remains of the Day
“Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.” CitiesOur LivesRemainsImprovingCountryside Author:Nathan Glazer