That's the nature of grief: It's a creature with many arms but few legs, and it staggers about, searching for support.
That I was a swimmer made no waves; it seems to be a law of human naturethat those who live by the sea are suspicious of swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountain cl...
Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.
Stories identify, unify, give meaning to. Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
Seperti perpustakaan umum, atau museum, kebun binatang bertujuan melayani bidang pendidikan populer serta ilmu pengetahuan.
Reality escapes us. It's beyond description, even a simple pear. Time eats everything.
People move because of the wear and tear of anxiety. Because of the gnawing feeling that no matter how hard they work their efforts will yield nothing, that what they build up in one year will be torn...
Now he realized that this matter of faith was either radically to be taken seriously or radically not to be taken seriously.
My heart began to beatlike a merry drum and blood started flowing through my veins like cars from a wedding partyhonking their way through town.
Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.
Machen Sie weiter, bis das Tier, das Ihnen zusetzt - ob Tiger, ob Rhinozeros - grün vor Seekranheit ist. Sie müssen hören, wie es sich die Seele aus dem Leibe spuckt.
Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!
It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of another faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them—and then they...
It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them - and then they leap. I'll be honest about it. It is...
It was frightening, the extent to which a full belly made for a good mood.
In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little.
In his entirely personal experience of them, English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was from the streets. Which is to stay, stab his heart and...
If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go! -- do you think they would shout and dance...
If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping be...