We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them. ~Erich Fromm
#quotes #erich-fromm #world #things

I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive; those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood. ~Osamu Dazai
#quotes #osamu-dazai #life #mother #hardship

The places I've been, or passed through, or seen at a distance, have had as much an impact on my life as the people I've known. ~Bryan Lee O'Malley
#quotes #bryan-lee-o-malley #life #places

I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
#quotes #edgar-degas #art #attitude

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments. ~Kevin J. Anderson
#quotes #kevin-j-anderson #writing #jobs

Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the while I am being carried across the sky by beautiful clouds. ~Ojibwe Proverb
#proverbs #ojibwe-proverbs #self #beauty

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. ~Akhil Sharma
#quotes #akhil-sharma #love #fear

The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
#proverbs #zen-proverbs #buddhism

Never look a gift horse in the mouth. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #gratitude

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
#proverbs #zen-proverbs #buddhism #perspective

All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #reality

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs

He who eats alone, coughs alone. ~Arabic Proverb
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Fortune does not come twice. Misfortune does not come alone. ~Chinese Proverb
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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #optimism

It is no use to wait for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. ~Belgian Proverb
#proverbs #belgian-proverbs #reason

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild. ~Welsh Proverb
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A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Four things come not back; the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, the neglected opportunity. ~Arabic Proverb
#proverbs #arabic-proverbs #opportunity #time

Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #wait

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
#quotes #martin-rees #time #human #change

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don't; but we wear it all the same. ~Barbara Kingsolver
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