It’s in literature that
It’s in literature that true life can be found. It’s under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth. Gao Xingjian
True Life
Life is a game
Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games. Evan Esar
Love of country cannot
Love of country cannot be a supersized version of individual narcissism. True love of country-of this country-is love of our children, of a creed that promises them a better life before it promises us anything, and embraces the sacrifices needed to make that better life. True love of country is giving ourselves to a cause … Read more
When we name things
When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren’t there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don’t say be bathes poorly, but quickly. Name the situation as it is, don’t filter it through your judgments. Give your assent only to that which is actually true. Epictetus
What is a novel?
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to ring true. True to what? True to life as the reader knows life to be or, it may be, feels life to be. And I mean the adult, the grown-up reader. Such a … Read more
Whoever lives true life,
Whoever lives true life, will love true love. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
True life lies in
True life lies in laughter, love and work. Elbert Hubbard
Even if you achieve
Even if you achieve your outer purpose, it will never satisfy you if you haven’t found your inner purpose, which is awakening, being present, being in alignment with life. True power comes out of the presence; it is the presence. Eckhart Tolle
The idea that reincarnation
The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is. Frederick Lenz
No true work since
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted word, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came … Read more