227 Quotes by Ruth Ozeki

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    Le mal de vivre, ‘the pain of life.’ Qu’ll faut bien vivre... ‘that we must live with, or endure.’ Vaille que vivre, this is difficult but it is something like ’we must live the life we have. We must soldier on.

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    I believe it doesn’t matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life.

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    Spinoza writes, “A free man, that is to say, a man who lives according to the dictates of reason alone, is not led by fear of death, but directly desires the good, that is to say, desires to act, and to preserve his being in accordance with the principle of seeking his own profit. He thinks, therefore, of nothing less than death, and his wisdom is a meditation upon life.

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    Assumptions and expectations will kill any relationship, so let’s you and me not go there, okay?

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    In the time it takes to say ‘now,’ now is already over. It’s already ‘then.’ ‘Then’ is the opposite of ‘now.’ So saying ‘now’ obliterates its meaning, turning it into exactly what it isn’t.

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    At the time I was feeling hopeful, which now seems kind of sad and brave.

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    There’s nothing like realizing that you don’t have much time left to stimulate your appreciation for the moments of your life.

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    If time is annihilated, mountains and oceans are annihilated.

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    Do not think that time simply flies away. Do not understand “flying” as the only function of time. If time simply flew away, a separation would exist between you and time. So if you understand time as only passing, then you do not understand the time being.

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