Sublime

what would happen if we respected the flow of life and used our free will to participate in what’s unfolding, instead of fighting it?

A single life, says the Mishna, is like a universe.5 Change a life, and you begin to change the universe. That is how we make a difference: one life at a time, one day at a time, one act at a time. We never know in advance what effect a single act may have. Sometimes we never know it at all.

Each person’s life—each life-form, in fact—represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself. And when your form dissolves, a world comes to an end—one of countless worlds.

“I am not fully known to myself because part of what I am is the enigmatic traces of others.”

Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before), you will, n

« Quand le bonheur égoïste est le seul but de la vie, la vie est bientôt sans but1I, écrivait Romain Rolland.

we all live on borrowed time.

“What will those who know you whisper about how you lived once you’re no longer here?”