Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.
James BaldwinTags: love death loneliness survival lessons
It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
Arthur MillerTags: wisdom life truth literature plays lessons
I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies
Sinclair LewisTags: life movies quotes lessons restless lit arrowsmith
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy from your parents, find a moderately satisfying job, form a relationship, perhaps raise some children, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation and eventually in your own, until one day a fatal illness starts gnawing at your innards and you calmly go to the grave, shut the coffin and are done with the self-evident business of life.
Alain de BottonTags: life complexity intuition lessons
Boredom looms over the liveliest lessons, seeking to destroy.
Marina Leigh DuffTags: boredom lessons ennui vulture
Dont look for something that isn't there, because you're never going to find it
Jayden PTags: wisdom inspirational life-lessons lessons general
I have had to learn the simplest things
last. Which made for difficulties.
Tags: life learning poetry poem simplicity challenges lessons
Children teach us how to chase without overrunning.
Darnell Lamont WalkerEverything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.
Taylor MaliTags: life education learning lessons
She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create. Theorem, anti-theorem, corollary, anti-corollary. Underline it twice. It’s all there in the numbers. Listen to your mother. Listen to me, Joshua. Look me in the eyes. I have something to tell you.
Colum McCannTags: politics murder children patriotism war loss mother lessons pacifism anti-war armies let-the-great-world-spin
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