Excerpts II
Book name: The collection of Tagore's Poems
《Stray Birds》
-If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
-I cannot choose the best.
The best chooses me.
They throw their shadows before them who carry their lantern on their back.
That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.
-You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.
-The mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.
-Man does not reveal himself in his history, he struggles up through it.
-Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
-Man barricades against himself.
-This longing is for the one who is felt in the dark, but not seen in the day.
-I think of others ages that floated upon the stream of life and love and death and are forgotten, and I feel freedom of passing away.
-Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
-The touch of nameless days clings to my heart like mosses round the old tree.
-That which ends in exhaustion is death, but the perfect ending is in the endless.
-I hear some rustle of things behind my sadness of heart─I cannot see them.
-Gaps are left in life through which comes the sad music of death.
-Sit still, my heart, do not raise your dust.
Let the world find its way to you.
The bow whispers to the arrow before it speeds forth─ "Your freedom is mine."
-Let me not put myself wrongly to my world and set it against me.
2013年9月23日 星期一
2013年9月16日 星期一
I haven't finish reading the book, so there's only some quotes.
I'll try to read other books as soon as possible.
*Tuesdays with Morrie
-Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happen to me?
-He would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value,right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.
-Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.
-He was intent on proving that the word "dying" was not synonymous with "useless."
-In fact, the most unusual part of his life us about to unfold.
-I watched his strong body wither, then bloat, saw him suffer, night after night.
-It was the most helpless I have ever felt in my life.
-After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough.
-Accept what you are able to do and what are not able to do; Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it; Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others; Don't assume that it;s too late to get involved.
I'll try to read other books as soon as possible.
*Tuesdays with Morrie
-Shouldn't the world stop? Don't they know what has happen to me?
-He would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value,right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.
-Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip.
-He was intent on proving that the word "dying" was not synonymous with "useless."
-In fact, the most unusual part of his life us about to unfold.
-I watched his strong body wither, then bloat, saw him suffer, night after night.
-It was the most helpless I have ever felt in my life.
-After the funeral, my life changed. I felt as if time were suddenly precious, water going down an open drain, and I could not move quickly enough.
-Accept what you are able to do and what are not able to do; Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it; Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others; Don't assume that it;s too late to get involved.
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