Life
draft MT — needs author review
Aphorisms and thoughts, not necessarily golden, about life:
Life is like a furnished room — different for everyone — that you enter only once, and leave only once.
09-02-2009
Life is like sailing — everything depends on the course chosen and the sailor’s skill.
09-02-2009
In life, as at sea, either we have favourable winds, or we drift — unless we sink first.
09-02-2009
Life is like art — first you have to see it with the eyes of imagination, and then make it real.
10-02-2009
Though time chases each of us at a different pace through life, everyone still makes it to their finish line.
13-02-2009
We live the way we want to …
13-02-2009
You can dream and daydream, but the true art is simply to be.
13-02-2009
Step by step, unaware of tomorrow, we become it …
30-04-2007
Life is an art in which we are, in turn, actor and spectator.
30-04-2007
Even though the weight of life is only an imagined weight, a product of our imagination, it can still press us into the ground with no way of rising.
30-04-2007
Bad news always finds its way to where it needs to go.
18-09-2008
For the one who rages, life slips through the fingers like water.
30-10-2008
Sometimes one battle lasts longer than the whole war; sometimes we fight for every one of our days, without living through a single one.
07-01-2009
Even the greatest scoundrel has something of a child in him — a little rascal, say.
07-01-2009
One tick, then a tock, that’s how time flows — and we flow with it.
07-01-2009
In front of a mirror we get the strange feeling of being watched, and yet we’re only looking at ourselves.
07-01-2009
The world we see is an illusory world, a reflection of our senses and experiences. We define it based on what we see, hear, feel — and sometimes a small episode in life is enough for everything to change its meaning in the perceivable world. The world doesn’t need to be explored from without — you need to open yourself to it, because everything is within us; we ourselves are a universe unto ourselves, and it’s enough to look inward.
07-01-2009
The mystery of life lies deep within us, and that is also where all the answers lie.
07-01-2009