Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.
Interpretation
Life requires active participation and decision-making; you can either take action or miss out on opportunities.
This quote by Yasmina Khadra emphasizes the relentless pace of life and the necessity to engage with it actively. It suggests that life is constantly moving forward, much like a train that does not halt for anyone, and encourages individuals to seize opportunities rather than passively observing from the sidelines.
In practice
During a motivational speech emphasizing the importance of taking risks.
If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men.
You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.
If you're not doing something with your life, then it doesnβt matter how long you live. If you're doing something with your life, then it doesn't matter how short your life may be. A life is not measured by years lived, but by its usefulness. If you are giving, loving, serving, helping, encouraging, and adding value to others, then you're living a life that counts!
As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.
One ship drives east and another drives west With the selfsame winds that blow. Tis the set of the sails And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate, As we voyage along through the life: Tis the set of a soul That decides its goal, And not the calm or the strife.
. . .my dreams are the single unpredictable factor in my zoned days and nights. Nobody allots them, or censors them. Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.
Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.
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