Life

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“If a friend envies you, then he is not a true friend.”

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

“Fish! Fish! Fish!”

Kurt Vonnegut book Galápagos

Galápagos (1985)

“Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

“You can still reach the level of the angels by doing great deeds in your daily life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The people who walk angelically according to their free will and practice discipline in the life of the angels remove themselves completely from the desires of the flesh, beloved brothers; they die daily in the life that belongs to earth, but they live in the life of the angels, just as they share in the life of the Lord.”

Athanasius of Alexandria (295–373) Patriarch of Alexandria

“The advanced life of virtue,” Athanasius and the Politics of Asceticism (1995), p. 314

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

Roald Dahl book The Twits

Source: The Twits

“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Respect old age!”

Adolph Freiherr Knigge book Über den Umgang mit Menschen

Ehre das Alter!
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)

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