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We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena are metaphysical; wherefore, as many have long suspected — like it or not — “life is but a dream.”
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983The Wellspring of Reality
To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.
Thomas Fuller1608–1661The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), The Virtuous Lady
We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.
Neil Gaimanborn 1960Signal to Noise (1992)
- Time
I think… I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
Neil Gaimanborn 1960Fragile Things (2006), Introduction, p. xiii
We should not mourn for men of high ideals. Rather we should rejoice that we had the privilege of having had them with us, to inspire us by their radiant personalities.
Indira Gandhi1917–1984Speech presenting Martin Luther King’s Nehru Award to Coretta Scott King, New Delhi (24 January 1969)
- Inspiration
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
- Education
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Response to a journalist’s question about what his message to the world was. Mahatma: Life of Gandhi 1869-1948 (1968) Reel 13
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948
I have existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931“Song of Man”, A Tear and a Smile (1914); tr. Juan Cole in The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul (1994)
- Time
To make life a little better for people less fortunate than you, that’s what I think a meaningful life is. One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg1933–2020About her legacy. As quoted in: Jay Croft (September 20, 2020): 10 quotes that help define the ‘Notorious RBG’ legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Charity
A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Iphigenie auf Tauris (1787)
It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.
Cary Grant1904–1986Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
- Happiness
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between times, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant1904–19861978 interview with Roderick Mann, “Cary Grant: Doing What Comes naturally,” Los Angeles Times (June 11, 1978), p. 39; as quoted in “Quotable Cary” at American Masters (25 May 2005)
- Comedy
Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark — a shining space
With the grave’s narrowness, though not its peace.
Robert Graves1895–1985“Sick Love,” lines 7–12, from Poems 1929
- Time