Después de los cuarenta años la verdadera cara la tenemos en la nuca, mirando desesperadamente para atrás. (After forty years, the real face is on the back of the neck, looking desperately back.)
—Julio Cortázar
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
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Friday, May 26, 2017
Post #2345
The life of man is the incessant walk of time wherein every moment is a step towards death. Even our growing to perfection is a progress to decay. Every thought we have is a sand running out of the glass of life.
—Owen Feltham
—Owen Feltham
Tuesday, May 02, 2017
Post #2327
Life will always be, to a large extent, what we ourselves make it. Each mind makes its own little world. The cheerful mind makes it pleasant, and the discontented mind makes it miserable. "My mind to me a kingdom is" applies alike to the peasant as to the monarch.
—Samuel Smiles
—Samuel Smiles
Friday, April 21, 2017
Post #2320
Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.
—Benjamin Franklin
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—Benjamin Franklin
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Thursday, September 22, 2016
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Post #2168
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
—Samuel Johnson
—Samuel Johnson
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Post #2107
The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.
—Omar Khayyām
—Omar Khayyām
Friday, June 03, 2016
Post #2090
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Friday, May 20, 2016
Post #2080
The life of man is the incessant walk of nature, wherein every moment is a step towards death. Even our growing to perfection is a progress to decay. Every thought we have is a sand running out of the glass of life.
—Owen Feltham
—Owen Feltham
Friday, February 26, 2016
Post #2020
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for vicissitudes.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tuesday, February 02, 2016
Post #2002
Be still prepared for death—and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.
—William Shakespeare
—William Shakespeare
Tuesday, January 05, 2016
Post #1982
While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone; and death, though perhaps they receive him differently, yet treats alike the fool and the philosopher.
— David Hume
Monday, January 04, 2016
Post #1981
HOPE writes the poetry of the boy, but memory that of the man. Man looks forward with smiles, but backward with sighs. Such is the wise providence of God. The cup of life is the sweetest at the brim; the flavor is impaired as we drink deeper, and the dregs are made bitter that we may not struggle when it is taken from our lips.
—Unknown
—Unknown
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Post #1922
The soul is only the thinking part of the body, and with the body it passes away. When death comes, the farce is over (la farce est jouée), therefore let us take our pleasure while we can.
—Julien Offray de la Mettrie
Monday, July 20, 2015
Post #1861
For the length of life there is no law. The weakest thread will draw itself out to an unexpected length, and the strongest is suddenly cutoff by the scissors of Fate, who seems to take delight in contradictions.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Post #1839
The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?"
—Frederick William Faber
—Frederick William Faber
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Post #1838
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.
—Phillips Brooks
—Phillips Brooks
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Friday, May 08, 2015
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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