Life is not for understanding or to known rather it is for living & only for living

That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.

Frederick Buechner

He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going up a smokestack of a crematorium there: "I had just been assigned to the Sonderkommando," he said to me, "when the order came from Himmler to close the ovens down." Sonderkommando means special detail. At Auschwitz it meant a very special detail indeed--one composed of prisoners whose duties were to shepherd condemned persons into gas chambers, and then to lug their bodies out. When the job was done, the members of the Sonderkommando were themselves killed. The first duty of their successors was to dispose of their remains. Gutman told me that many men actually volunteered for the Sonderkommando. "Why?" I asked him. "If you would write a book about that," he said, "and give the answer to that question, that 'Why?'--you would have a very great book." "Do you know the answer?" I said. "No," he said, "That is why I would pay a great deal of money for a book with the answer in it." "Any guesses?" I said. "No," he said, looking me straight in the eye, "even though I was one of the ones who volunteered."He went away for a little while, after having confessed that. And he thought about Auschwitz, the thing he liked least to think about. And he came back, and he said to me: "There were loudspeakers all over the camp," he said, "and they were never silent for long. There was much music played through them. Those who were musical told me it was often good music--sometimes the best." "That's interesting," I said. "There was no music by Jews," he said. "That was forbidden." "Naturally," I said. "And the music was always stopping in the middle," he said, "and then there was an announcement. All day long, music and announcements." "Very modern," I said. He closed his eyes, remembered gropingly. "There was one announcement that was always crooned, like a nursery rhyme. Many times a day it came. It was the call for the Sonderkommando." "Oh?" I said. "Leichentärger zu Wache," he crooned, his eyes still closed. Translation: "Corpse-carriers to the guardhouse."In an institution in which the purpose was to kill human beings by the millions, it was an understandably common cry. "After two years of hearing that call over the loudspeakers, between the music," Gutman said to me, "the position of corpse-carrier suddenly sounded like a very good job.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

You can either be the victim of your own life, or the victor".

Catie Hartsfield

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

Bernie Glassman

We don't need to start our dream from the top all we need is to make a first step where we are standing right now and say my journey starts now

Subingsubing Dondy

Don't ever let anyone bring you down, define who you are or destroy your AWESOMENESS.

Tanya Masse

Stay HIGH on AWESOMENESS so reality cannot destroy you!

Tanya Masse

No life is messier than one in ministry

Jerry B. Jenkins

Some believe they can, Some believe that they cannot. Both are clearly right

J. Benson

If you possess the basic necessities in life, there is absolutely no reason for you to feel any sorrows. For there is someone praying to be in your place.

Jessiie Mahadeo

Sweet n SourHere I am Wishing you Luckin Every aspect of lifeThis Ugadi (Gudi Padwa) and always to All of You

krvishal

Life is great.Life is amazing.Observe the beauty in everything you do.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a very thin line between- Gobar(cow dung) and Go-Uber!!!!

Kshitij Bhatia

Life is not a test or a competition. We only compete with ourselves.

Chloe Thurlow

Life, is energy. It is the energy that makes your heart beat and makes you breathe, that causes the cells of your body to automatically grow and reproduce the moment you are conceived!

Tae Yun Kim

If you are investing time, money, energy to develop yourself at present and that would be the huge profit ever in future.

Sivaprakash Sidhu Sivaprakash G Sivaprakash Gopal

Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.

Raheel Farooq

It was to remind me how lucky we are that the beggar was placed in my path. You see, some people live all their lives without knowing which path is right. They're buffeted by this wind or that and never really know where they're going. That's largely the fate of commoners-those who have no choice over their destiny.For those of us born as samurai, life is something else. We know the path of duty and we follow it without question. But even that may not be easy because there may be insurmountable obstacles. Such as what that blind beggar faces. He might have a secret dream of revenge against an oppressor too. He might have justice on his side as we do now, but there is nothing he can do about it. I say we're lucky-we know what has to be done and it's within out capability to make it happen!…Remember, there's sacrifice involved in any kind of life. Even the man who chooses the safe way has to give up the thrill of combat. The point is that once you know what you want, you must be prepared to sacrifice everything to get it. Those who realize this are the fortunate ones. Those who know and can try. What more can a man ask for than that?

John Allyn

Challenges bring opportunity for growth.

Theresa Larsen

It’s not words, but years we should be editing. Remember: time spent on bad art is a form of redundancy, doing the same thing twice is a form of tautology, and wasting precious moments complaining about life is a form of pleonasm. We should all learn to live our lives concisely.

Anthony Marais

Success comes only through strong will, determination and effort.

Santonu Kumar Dhar

I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave

Stanley Victor Paskavich

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

Jack Gantos

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Whilst writing all this, I have had in my mind a woman, whose strong and serious mind would not have failed to support me in these contentions. I lost her thirty years ago [I was a child then]--nevertheless, ever living in my memory, she follows me from age to age.She suffered with me in my poverty, and was not allowed to share my better fortune. When young, I made her sad, and now I cannot console her. I know not even where her bones are: I was too poor then to buy earth to bury her!And yet I owe her much. I feel deeply that I am the son of woman. Every instant, in my ideas and words [not to mention my features and gestures], I find again my mother in myself. It is my mother's blood which gives me the sympathy I feel for bygone ages, and the tender remembrance of all those who are now no more.What return then could I, who am myself advancing towards old age, make her for the many things I owe her? One, for which she would have thanked me--this protest in favour of women and mothers.

Samuel Smiles

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~

Susan Wiggs

Don’t lose good opportunities waiting for better opportunities

Mohit Bansal

Problems, Troubles, Difficulty, Barrier, Hurdle, Stumbling Block, Termination, Set Backs, Obstacles are the Doors to Opportunities." Make a use of it:-)

Sivaprakash Sidhu Sivaprakash G Sivaprakash Gopal

I used to want to understand how the world worked. Little things, like heavy stuff goes at the bottom of the laundry bag, or big things, like the best way to get a boy to chase you is to ignore him, or medium things, like if you cut an onion under running water your eyes won't sting, and if you wash your fingers afterwards with lemon-juice they won't stink.I used to want to know all the secrets, and every time I learned one, I felt like I'd taken--a step. On a journey. To a place. A destination: to be the kind of person who knew all this stuff, the way everyone around me seemed to know all this stuff. I thought that once I knew enough secrets, I'd be like them.

Cory Doctorow

You can't blame her,' said Amit. 'After a life so full of tragedy anyone would become hard.''What tragedy?' asked Mrs. Chatterji.'Well, when she was four,' said Amit, 'her mother slapped her--it was quite traumatic--and then things went on in that vein. When she was twelve she came in second in an exam...It hardens you.

Vikram Seth

Have an open mind! Have an empty cup!

Tae Yun Kim

Older doesn't always mean wiser. It just means that you've had more time to do the same things over and over again- right, wrong, and different.

Carew Papritz

Fuck the ones who hurt you Stop thinking about them, Get on with your own lifeThey'll eventually come back with apologies And you'll gladly accept them; as you keep growing with your life.

Nikki Rowe

I don't forgive people, but I don't let them bother me either!

Nehali Lalwani

After a bad trip, don't carry your luggage on board the next flight. Stay grounded til you figure out a new way to travel.

T.F. Hodge

Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.

Jack Kerouac

It’s not wasting time when you sit and look upon the roses, they remind you, every rose has a thorn!

F.J. Namini

The quickest way to get over something you loved and lost is to get another one.

Karen Tenerowicz

While you were out JUDGING others, you left your closet door open...and guess what fell out!....Ooops

Karen Gibbs

True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.

Jewel

If we have touched another's life with our action and through our words then we have lived.

Aisha Mirza

You get one chance.You get to do this thing one time and you don’t even know when it goes from swirling forward and around and around in circles to just a plain cold stop and nothing more. Can you believe it? All this time I’ve spent weighing this and weighing that, worrying about this and worrying about that, living back then and living forward, caring about what so-and-so thinks and about so-and-so, too, but never living here, here, this moment here. Never even acknowledging that this moment even exists, and it hits me, like a live volt through the chest.This moment here.This is all you get.Before you are part of the sky

Andrea Portes

We all have that one friend that walks into your home like its their home

Thabang Gideon Magaola

Some people in our life are like a lighthouse,They guide us to safety as we navigate the coast

Mohammed Sekouty

You Life is a progress, and not a station.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Soaring is in stages, it progresses as you engage in the very art.

TemitOpe Ibrahim

Knowledge is the best economy we can have.

Greejesh Prakash

If you go through life making every decision based on what issafest, you will look back one day and discover that you have missed out on the best. Allowing fear to run your life will only rob you of your future.

Tessa Afshar

Like an athlete trains, so must the student of life.

Elizabeth Salamanca-Brosig

Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.

Richard Marius

It is not about giving her the world, it is all about making her realize that she is the only one in it.

Nehali Lalwani

It is appointed for man to die once, Live life to the fullness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Draw outside the lines! Make the sky purple instead of blue! That's what it looks like to dreamers!

Viola Shipman

Each person in your life is a teacher, each experience in your life is a lesson. Living is like looking into a mirror, every teacher is you.

L.J Vanier

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