If the chick is not able to break the shell of his egg, he will die without being born. We are - chick. The world - is our egg. If we do not break the shell of the world, then we will die without being born
Hermann Hesse
Related He'd offer you an egg if you promised not to break the shell. IRISH PROVERB If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a wo... HERMANN HESSE If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON A wise man once said, "Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong eno... LEARNED HAND Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way ... BUDDHA If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born to die. MATTHEW ARNOLD What then remains, but that we still should cry,/ Not to be born, or being born, to die? FRANCIS BACON Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. HANS ANDERSEN Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO Why are we born? We're born eventually to die, of course. But what happens between the time we... STUDS TERKEL What then remains but that we still should cry for being born, and, being born, to die? FRANCIS BACON SR. Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Whether a fellow winds up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends a heap on the kind of chick he marr... SOURCE UNKNOWN The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is somet... ISABEL ALLENDE We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married WALL STREET JOURNAL We are born without our knowledge,we may die without our knowledge but we have got an opportunity to... KOWSALAPATHY What we call life...is the combination of the Five Aggregates, a combination of physical and mental ... WALPOLA RAHULA When we are born we die, our end is but the pendant of our beginning. MANILIUS Who tries to find the logic of love will die without ever being able to love. SORIN CERIN From the development of our world and its ability to hold life, to being born into a species that ha... WILLIAM JOHN SHERMAN WALSH III The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic... ODO SIMON AGBO The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. FRANCOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Since we destroy harmful bacteria that would otherwise diminish the taste over time, we maintain a s... GREG WEST The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN The secret of life is not in the Die And Live, The secret of life is Don't ever lose your sense... SUSHIL SINGH Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are pro... THICH NHAT HANH We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in th... RACHEL CORRIE I promise, I will not let you die without being kissed. MARISSA MEYER We cannot choose how we are born or how we will die, but I am certain that we are able to choose how... ZEKE MILLAN We weep when we are born,
Not when we die! THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is no... NHAT HANH Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is no... THICH NHAT HANH There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ... ALBERT CAMUS I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th... JIM GENOVESE If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West... APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv... NICKOLE SANDERS He may not have been born with guts, but he didn't have to die without them. KATHERINE PATERSON All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream... JOSEPH EPSTEIN It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Once one notices what they have always thought of but never enacted and discover themselves and life... ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ JR So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY If we're honest, most of us are doing okay. CRAIG GROESCHEL When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A hen cannot produce an empty shell, likewise a child cannot be born without purpose in his bosom. KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we s... ERICH FROMM If you leave this world without solving the problems for which you were born, then you are a failure... SUNDAY ADELAJA The greatest tragedy of the modern world is that if we were to all die tomorrow, the truth is, most ... CHARLES M FORD II If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best. ROBERT SIAHAAN will the crocodile not feed if there are no fishes in the river? will the hen not peck its chick if ... JOVITA OBADOLAGBONYI From the moment we are born, we begin to die. JANNE TELLER The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Humans are born, then they die. Thus is it better to not have been born at all? AUTHOR UNKNOWN We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. CHE GUAVARA I've been accused of being a shell designer - you start with a machine and enclose it. But in ma... RAYMOND LOEWY Aristide is the brain and Preval is his tool. If he becomes president, chaos will break out. We will... CHARLES BAKER From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everythin... MICHAEL HUFFINGTON We are born to die. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our pres... CONFUCIUS We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We c... SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA The bird dares to break the shell, then the shell breaks open and the bird can fly openly. This is t... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR God wants to show the advantage of His kingdom to the world, but He will not do this without us SUNDAY ADELAJA If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how... HARUKI MURAKAMI I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I wi... CASSANDRA CLARE The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON It was nice to see Rusty break out of his shell. BART ROTHENBERGER Those born once will die twice and those born twice will die once CHUCK MISSLER I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com... NICK HORNBY The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell. ZORA NEALE HURSTON The End is Nigh!" the man shouted. "Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked. T... JANA OLIVER Connectivity without stability such like building something fragile inside something empty GIHARU SI PEREMPUAN GUNUNG Let me finish my beer." (Stark) "Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian) RICHARD KADREY Rich people are often thought of as being dishonest if they were born without much money, and lazy i... VIKRANT PARSAI We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning. MARCUS MANILIUS We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning. BRET HARTE We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life. CRAIG GROESCHEL Beware of the person who speaks without modesty because he will always break his promises. VIKRANT PARSAI Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die WILLIAM PENN Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of... MEISTER ECKHART I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if h... BENJAMIN E. MAYS
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HERMANN HESSE I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my ... HERMANN HESSE I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or c... HERMANN HESSE Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of op... HERMANN HESSE Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object HERMANN HESSE To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a wo... HERMANN HESSE If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. HERMANN HESSE To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning. It... HERMANN HESSE Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wond... HERMANN HESSE The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a wo... HERMANN HESSE Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign... HERMANN HESSE Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always sign... HERMANN HESSE There I often walked along the shore, listened to the sea, and thought as I had done in my youth, wi... HERMANN HESSE (...) y todo aquello unido era el río, todas las voces, los fines, los anhelos, los sufrimientos, l... HERMANN HESSE Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh,... HERMANN HESSE Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. HERMANN HESSE Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them. HERMANN HESSE When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them ... HERMANN HESSE Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work i... HERMANN HESSE The Wolf trots to and fro, The world lies deep in snow, The raven from the birch tree flie... HERMANN HESSE If I know what love is, it is because of you. HERMANN HESSE Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest. HERMANN HESSE Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh,... HERMANN HESSE To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institution... HERMANN HESSE Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding,” Joseph exclaimed. “If only there were a dog... HERMANN HESSE For him, behind every feeling and thought was the sense of the open door leading into nothingness. T... HERMANN HESSE If I were to reduce all my feelings and their painful conflicts to a single name, I can think of no ... HERMANN HESSE There was only greed for living and dread, and out of dread, out of stupid childish dread of the col... HERMANN HESSE Whenever books are burned, sooner or later men also are burned. HERMANN HESSE He does not educate children but rejoices in their happiness HERMANN HESSE Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom HERMANN HESSE Wisdom is not communicable. HERMANN HESSE If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do HERMANN HESSE As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. HERMANN HESSE Es gehört meist mehr Mut dazu, einfach menschlich, statt heldenhaft heroisch zu sein. HERMANN HESSE Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object. HERMANN HESSE You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, single power, a single salv... HERMANN HESSE Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stag... HERMANN HESSE It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard. HERMANN HESSE Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret HERMANN HESSE There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life... HERMANN HESSE But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always ... HERMANN HESSE Paradise is seldom recognized as such until it is considered from the outside. HERMANN HESSE And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy a... HERMANN HESSE Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O... HERMANN HESSE If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselv... HERMANN HESSE