If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
Kazuo IshiguroStichwörter: inspirational life-experience self-development
Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.
Raquel CepedaStichwörter: inspiration life-experience journey ancestry ancestors sand build morocco trekking building-blocks sahara spiritual-journey sahara-desert globe-trotting trek
The luckiest people are the hardest working people." - L. R. W. Lee
L.R.W. LeeStichwörter: life-experience life-philosophy
Oh, once you’ve been initiated into the Elderly, the world doesn’t want you back.” Veronica settled herself in a rattan chair and adjusted her hat just so. “We—by whom I mean anyone over sixty—commit two offenses just by existing. One is Lack of Velocity. We drive too slowly, walk too slowly, talk too slowly. The world will do business with dictators, perverts, and drug barons of all stripes, but being slowed down it cannot abide. Our second offence is being Everyman’s memento mori. The world can only get comfy in shiny-eyed denial if we are out of sight.
David MitchellStichwörter: life-experience old-age dialogue
The way I tell it, he says to Fitzwilliam, you would think that the blow on the head had improved him. That he actually set out to get it. That every monarch needs a blow on the head, from time to time.
Hilary MantelStichwörter: life-experience governmentality
life iss just like a voyage where the waaves of time pushes us forward
Abrar Ahmed chowdhuryStichwörter: life-experience
To change someone's mind, requires only that you speak a more compelling narrative about their situation than their current one.
L.R.W. LeeStichwörter: life-experience life-lessons life-philosophy
Things are continually beginning again; they’re never really resolved, you know. They are only resolved temporarily. We live in a society that peddles solutions, whether it’s solutions to those extra pounds you’re carrying, or to your thinning hair, or to your loss of appetite, loss of love. We are always looking for solutions, but actually what we are engaged in is a process throughout life during which you never get it right. You have to keep being open, you have to keep moving forward. You have to keep finding out who you are and how you are changing, and only that makes life tolerable.
Jeanette WintersonStichwörter: life-experience jeanette-winterson
I could not have asked for a better friends or a better life, but there’s a nasty trick about living. It happens at its own pace and in its own way and you never, never know what’s coming next. So you keep running and running to keep up with it and most people get tired. Others don’t get tired. They just get overtaken by the road.
Melodie RamoneStichwörter: life-experience novel
Mum used to say we were the same soul split in two and walking around on four legs. It seems unnatural being born together and then dying apart.
Melodie RamoneStichwörter: life-experience brothers novel twins
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