#opening

What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? ↗

— Erich Segal

#first-lines #loss #opening-lines #love

We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#awareness #eye-opening #mind-opening #reality-of-life #realization

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. ↗

— Nick Cave

#opening-lines #opening-sentences #death

The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. There is no more to life than this. In other words, we are here to love. ↗

— Sara Wiseman

#god #heart-opening #inspiration #intuition #soul

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment. ↗

— Andy Rooney

#bring #closing #comfort #conversely #door

And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class. ↗

— David Coleman

#class #down #goes #his #legs

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

#atlanta #clown #crazy #crowd #dancer

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#democratic #economy #every #human #human rights

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. ↗

— Anthony Sampson

#egyptian #inside #liable #like #monarchy

The reason death sticks do closely to life isn't biological necessity-it"s envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only an thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud. ↗

— Yann Martel

#beauty