The streets have an eerie feeling.
One Sentence Fiction #21
Without you the days seem to be meaningless.
One Sentence Fiction #20
Now that you are gone
the chair at the table
opposite me
will always be there,
if and when you
decide to come back.
Short Story
Smoke filled room
ashtray overflowing
with cigarette butts
and remnants of Chinese
take out.
The life of a down
and out bachelor.
Philosophical Thought
The cab driver is waxing philosophically with his fare, and he said, “the meter of life and time is always running, so don’t waste it.” “Put it to good use.”
Books…
Books give a soul to the universe,
wings to the mind, flight to
the imagination, and life to
everything else.
-Plato
One Sentence Fiction
He’s known as the village’s number one neat freak.
833
the essence of adulthood
818
in a perfect world
life would be fair
808
eating a hot dog
dog chasing a cat
unicycle rider juggling
tennis balls
hawk swooping down
on a pigeon
planes flying above
sirens in the background
teenage girls giggling
life in the city
787
for some
people
life can
complicated
759
life at times
can be cruel
Six Word Story
Sitting in the shade, enjoying life.
752
crows cawing
dogs barking
drivers tooting
their horns
kids waiting
for the
school bus
just a normal
day in everywhere
America
722
in order to survive
you do
what you have to do
Life Quote
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Quick Fiction
His life, a comedy of errors, which turns out to be a never-ending quest.
502
The days are getting shorter
The nights are getting longer
Life goes on
436
He may not
be the sharpest
knife in the
draw
But he knows
when he is
getting screwed
282
If life sucks
Fix it
123
A fool
who believes
another fool
will never
know what
the hell
is really
going on
116
I wrote
you a note
saying how
much I miss
your wit and
wisdom and
you never
gave me a
reason as
to what
happened to
warrant an
honest reply
Till then
life will
go on
112
She is
walking
with her
head held
high and
letting everyone
know that she
is loving
life
62
When the weather
is nice you will
see the city
square philosopher
talking to people
about the meaning
of life and any
other philosophical
thoughts you care
to exchange with him
Death
“If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.”
– Michelangelo
1
I saw your smile
You looked so happy
Its all good
Something To Think About
We
all
live
one
tick
of
the
clock
at
a
time.
Numerous
ticks
too
many
to
count.
Yup!
Philosophical Quote – Mitch Albom
This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.
– Mitch Albom
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Lord Byron
“The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.”
– Lord Byron
What Is Life
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Life Is Like An Elevator, …..
Metaphor: a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar.
: an object, activity, or idea that is used as a symbol of something else.
Imagination
I like nonsense. It wakes up the
brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living, it’s a way of
looking at life through the wrong
end of a telescope. Which is what I
do, and that enables you to laugh
at life’s realities.
-Dr. Seuss
Jimi Hendrix Quote
“I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Tuesday Evening Quote
“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.”
– Woody Allen
Wednesday Morning Quote
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death. – Buddha
Sunday Morning Quote
It does make sense.
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10 of the best photographers documenting post-Soviet life
Life in the Arctic village of Shishmaref
Life in the Arctic village of Shishmaref
Monday Morning Quote
I agree!
Sunday Morning Quote
“Worse than telling a lie is spending your whole life staying true to a lie.”
– Robert Brault
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Cherries
We all heard the expression
life is like a bowl of cherries.
Well, if the cherries are past
their expiration date, then life
would be on the down side.
So the saying would be null
and void.
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A Pondering Thought
Life is like a yo-yo
It has its ups & downs
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Wednesday Morning Quote
“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
– Isaac Asimov
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Thursday Morning Quote
“As life runs on, the road grows strange with new faces – and near the end, the milestones into headstones change, ‘neath every one a friend.”
– James Russell Lowell
Sunday Evening Quote
“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.”
– Buddha
Life Is A Disease ……
“Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying – a little shove toward the end.”
– Erich Maria Remarque
Maya Angelou Quote
“I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.”
– Maya Angelou
Dalai Lama Quote
“I believe the very purpose of our life is
to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether
one believes in religion or not, whether one
believes in this religion or that religion, we
all are seeking something better in life. So, I
think, the very motion or our life is towards
happiness.”
Dalai Lama
John Lennon Quote
“There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Fortune Cookie
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Reading
Laying on the couch
Spending time going
Through the email
Reading the notifications
Of the people I follow
While the TV is watching me
What a charming life I live
Jose Ortega y Gasset Quote
Jose Ortega y Gasset – Spanish Philosopher.
Born: May 9, 1883, Died: OCTOBER 18, 1955
Albert Camus Quote
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
– Albert Camus
Jimi Hendrix Quote
“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Paul Theroux Quote
Born: April 10, 1941
Agatha Christie Quote
“One of the saddest things in life, is the things one remembers.”
– Agatha Christie
Quote
“Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?”
– Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Robert Frost Quote
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– Robert Frost
Quote
“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
– Aldous Huxley,
Wisdom
“As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone,
So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield,
I have learned, is to come back again.”
– Lao Tzu
Rain Is Grace
John Updike Novelist
Born: March 18, 1932 – Died: January 27, 2009
George Santayana Quote
“To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
– George Santayana
