At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.
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At birth, we emerge from dream soup. At death, we sink back into dream soup. In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land. Life is a portage.
Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.
...memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously.
We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
Life... is a paradise to what we know of death.
Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.
[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend. The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature - that makes me humble.
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