You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it. Yann Martel More Quotes by Yann Martel More Quotes From Yann Martel Artists invent things as a way of telling the truth. Yann Martel telling-the-truth artist way science can only take you so far and then you have to leap Yann Martel leap How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true. Yann Martel very-true invention mother Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by Yann Martel passing-by shadow clouds Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention? Yann Martel using-words invention world Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably. Yann Martel understanding feelings joy I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he stays true to his reasonable self, if he stays beholden to dry, yeastless factuality, might try to explain the warm light bathing him by saying "Possibly a f-f-failing oxygenation of the b-b-brain," and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story. Yann Martel light self white I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him. Yann Martel three forget thinking I am reminded of a story of Lord Krishna when he was a cowherd. Every night he invites the milkmaids to dance with him in the forest. They come and they dance. The night is dark, the fire in their midst roars and crackles, the beat of the music gets ever faster - the girls dance and dance and dance with their sweet lord, who has made himself so abundant as to be in the arms of each and every girl. But the moment the girls become possessive, the moment each one imagines that Krishna is her partner alone, he vanishes. So it is that we should not be jealous of God. Yann Martel jealous girl sweet You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on! Yann Martel may believe moving Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade. Yann Martel effort nature animal We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat. Yann Martel boat No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live. Yann Martel nausea sap dies I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory. Yann Martel left memories Don’t you bully me with your politeness! Yann Martel politeness bully ...for everything has a trace of the divine in it. Yann Martel divine Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap. Yann Martel legs atheist brother I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer Yann Martel hearing add two ...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something Yann Martel animal How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter? Yann Martel broken-spirit water long
