“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
Source: The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald 411
American novelist and screenwriter 1896–1940Related quotes
“Life goes on within you and without you”
“Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.”
1970s and later
“Love enables the emergence of ecstasy/ That of enchantment with life”
Life: Relish It! p. 47
Love: Be it! (2001)
'Queen's Counsel, The Joy of Life', The Birmingham News 1926.
“I think that art is the commemoration of life in its variety.”
Joyce Carol Oates interviews herself (2013)
Context: I think that art is the commemoration of life in its variety. The novel, for instance, is “historic” in its embodiment in a specific place and time and its suggestion that there is meaning to our actions. Without the stillness, thoughtfulness and depths of art, and without the ceaseless moral rigors of art, we would have no shared culture — no collective memory. As it is, in contemporary societies, where so much concentration is focused on social media, insatiable in its myriad, fleeting interests, the “stillness and thoughtfulness” of a more permanent art feels threatened.
“I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.”
Seventy Thousand Assyrians (1934)
Source: The Principles of State and Government in Islam (1961), Chapter 3: Government By Consent And Consent, p 48
The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom (2000).
Context: Within the body there are billions of different particles. Similarly, there are many different thoughts and a variety of states of mind. It is wise to take a close look into the world of your mind and to make the distinction between beneficial and harmful states of mind. Once you can recognize the value of good states of mind, you can increase or foster them.