Life is small, just like sands in the sea; Life is great, just like Gao Song on Mount Tai. Our parents gave us this wonderful life, which is precious and only belongs to us once.
Life is like a grain of sand on the river bed. As soon as the river passes by, it takes it to an unknown distance, which makes it look so small and fragile.
Life is precious, but it is so small and fragile in the face of disease.
The greatness of life:
Li Bai: the husband of heaven and earth, the inverse of everything; Time flies, and a hundred generations have passed. And floating like a dream, for joy geometry?
Cao Cao: What is life when drinking wine? For example, morning dew is much more difficult to go to Japan.
Lu Youqing: Even if I am attached to life, I will choose to bear it silently and wait quietly. Life information
Teresa (sister): I fell asleep and felt the beauty of life. I woke up and felt the responsibility of life.
Henry James (American novelist): Every stone in the street and every molecule in the sun contains history.
Pascal (French thinker): Man is a reed, the most fragile life in nature. Any force in the universe can destroy him, but man is also a thinking reed. Man knows his limitations and that he will eventually die. This is the greatness of man.
Novalis (German Romantic Poet): If there is no death, the greatest happiness will belong to the extremely crazy people.
Bergson: We feel that the continuation of time is like a stream that cannot be reversed. It is the foundation of our existence, because we feel that it is the essence of the world we live in.
Thomas: If we follow fate more closely when it comes to the last moment, then white hair will be a kind of happiness, and the remaining reason will not be a disaster. But long-term living habits make us unwilling to die.
Rousseau: If we never die, we will become unfortunate people instead. Of course, death is painful, but when we think that we can't live forever and there is a better life that will end the pain of this life, we will feel relaxed. If someone allows us to live in this world forever, who will accept this ominous gift?
Tagore: May the living have immortal love and the dead have immortal names.
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves. bird
Zhang Ailing: If you want to do something, do it at once, otherwise it will be too late, because people are the most uncertain things.
Master Hongyi's last poem: the intersection of sadness and joy
Qu Qiubai said before his execution: This place is very good.
Hu Changqing, a corrupt official, complained to the police in the detention center: I have a skill and my calligraphy is very famous. If you let me live, I would like to write calligraphy for you in prison all my life.
Versace (late fashion designer): I have always believed that nothing belongs to us forever. Life is like a journey. Maybe we will gain something on the trip, but we can't take it with us after all.
Montaigne (France): I am ready to say goodbye to my life at any time, with no regrets. This is not because of the hardship or distress of life, but because the essence of life lies in death. Therefore, only those who are willing to live can truly feel the distress of death. Especially at this moment, I see that my life time is running out, and the more I want to increase the weight of my life. I want to seize the time to keep the fleeting days; I want to make up for the fleeting time by making effective use of time. The shorter the rest of my life, the more I want to make up my mistakes.
Pascal: Since people can't cure death, pain and ignorance, they decided not to miss them at all in order to make themselves happy.
Despite these tragedies, people still want happiness, just want happiness and don't want happiness; But how can he master happiness? In order to do this well, he must make himself immortal; However, since he had to die, he made up his mind not to think about it.
Bergson: We feel that the continuation of time is like a stream that cannot be reversed. It is the foundation of our existence, because we feel that it is the essence of the world we live in.
Thomas: If the last moment of fate approaches, the more persistent we are, the white hair will be a kind of happiness, and the remaining reason will not be a disaster. But long-term living habits make us unwilling to die.
Rousseau: If we never die, we will become unfortunate people instead. Of course, death is very painful. However, when we think that we can't live forever and there will be a better life to end today's pain, we will feel relaxed. If someone allows us to live in this world forever, who will accept this ominous gift?
Bing Xin's past: If life is boring, there may be an afterlife; If life is limited, it is enough.
This Confucian view of life and death in China and the West, on the one hand, admits that "life is life and death is life", but also emphasizes that "if you don't know life, do you know death?" Remind the world to pay attention to secular efforts. Mencius' so-called "don't die young, cultivate one's morality, keep one's family in order, so make a living" can best highlight this humanistic spirit. Although Zhuangzi, a Taoist, clearly stated that "death is also life", he also emphasized that life and death should be treated equally, because "the unity of life and death" can best show the spirit of transcendence.
In the west, Plato clearly emphasized that the purpose of life is to pursue truth, goodness and beauty, but eternal truth, goodness and beauty only after death. Therefore, "philosophy is the practice of death." In addition, he advocated the theory of immortality of the soul. Although his student Aristotle denied the immortality of the soul, he also affirmed that "sacred reason is immortal" and stressed that "we should try our best to live a rational life and make ourselves immortal". In Kant's view, although the immortality of the soul "has no logical certainty", it has "moral certainty and inevitability". Therefore, he stressed that the more the spirit is used, the more it will come out. "The more you think, the more you do, and the longer you live." In Hegel's opinion, it is even more blunt that "death is a kind of sublation". The existentialist Heidegger clearly pointed out that the outlook on life is the view of death, and since life is destined to be a "dying existence", how to be conscientious on weekdays is the best attitude to face life and death.
Nowadays, with the development of medicine, "hospice care" has become a common concern. How to "live with dignity and die with dignity" has also become a topic that transcends national boundaries. Life and Death, the representative work of Professor Ross of the University of Chicago, holds that death is also a kind of "growth" of life, which is more positive and constructive.
Questioning the meaning of life is the inevitable torture of every thinking living body on its own soul. Even if it can't reach the height of ultimate concern of human beings, it still shines with unpretentious civilian thoughts. Dr Victor Frank, the author of The Meaning of Living, is a famous psychiatrist in Austria and a representative of the third school of psychotherapy in Vienna. During World War II, he was a prisoner in Auschwitz concentration camp. The book "The Meaning of Living" is the author's description of the experience and catastrophe in the concentration camp, and it is also an important record of his invention of the "logotherapy Law" during his prison life with the prison number 1 19 104.
Unique characteristics make everyone different and make everyone's existence meaningful, which is closely related to creative work and human love. "One cannot find the abstract meaning of life. Everyone has his own special vocation or mission, which needs to be realized concretely. His life is unrepeatable or irreplaceable. Therefore, everyone is unique, and only he has a special opportunity to complete his unique talent mission. " "Once a person understands that his position is irreplaceable, it is naturally easy to make every effort to take the greatest responsibility for his existence. As long as he knows that he has the responsibility to take care of himself for some unfinished work or those who look forward to his early return, he will certainly not abandon his life. " In Frank's view, as long as there is "the will to seek meaning", not only life and love, but also "suffering" and "pain" are meaningful.
Just because life is limited, we can't change it and we can't escape it. The only thing we have to do is to make the short life as big as possible and make the few days thicker, so as to make up for the regrets left by God and dispel the fears in our hearts. Life has a real meaning since then. Today, people have used the word "value" as a symbol of this meaning.
French explorer Xia witnessed the death of his best partner and his brother in an avalanche in the Alps. Xia mourned the towering snow-capped mountains in the shortest language: "You came to this world and left in an instant, but you will be as eternal as the Alps." Xia is willing to be a lone ranger on the snowy mountain, "because every time, there is always a temptation ahead."
Temptation, which should be the initial motive force of concentrated life, is often called goal or ideal now.
Tick off the old days every day and replace the calendar with a new one every year. You will sigh that life is too short, feel that there are not many days in the future, try your best to make the condensed days more exciting, better in quality and heavier, and look forward to the temptation behind and weigh the limited value.
Why should I climb the mountain? A famous English mountaineer replied, "Because the mountain is there." For mountaineers, mountains are an irresistible call. Take mountaineering as a lofty cause and go all out.
The spirit of human exploration is eternal. It is precisely because of human exploration spirit and continuous progress that today's civilization has come into being. Many people have given their precious lives in the process of exploring nature, but this is a valuable asset for later generations.
Cultivating the spirit of exploration is of positive significance to a person and a nation. An adventurous person will constantly seek new conquest goals and new realm and height of life; On the contrary, if a person or a nation has no spirit of exploration, there will be no future.
Tragic scene in Antarctic exploration 199 1 year, Amundsen of Norway and Scott of Britain began to conquer the Antarctic almost at the same time. Scott didn't reach the South Pole until five weeks after Amundsen won. Although Scott knew Amundsen had won the March to the South Pole, he didn't stop because he would be a loser. When he returned, he was trapped in the ice and snow because of the early arrival of the South Pole. In the end, the last three explorers were seriously overdrawn and lacked food and fuel. The merciless snowstorm froze them to death in cold, hunger and fatigue. Scott was still writing his adventure diary before he died, and they didn't give up their 35-pound rock sample until they died. Zweig once praised: "Magnificent destruction, though still alive, produces the will to climb infinite peaks in failure. Although a man destroyed himself in the struggle against invincible bad luck, his heart became extremely noble. "
Legend of Thorn Birds There is a legend that there is a bird that sings only once in its life, and its song is more beautiful than all the creatures in the world. From the moment it left the nest, it was looking for the thorn tree and wouldn't stop until it reached its goal. Then it plunged into the longest and sharpest thorns and let out the sound among the wild branches. At the dying moment, it transcended its own pain, and its singing actually eclipsed larks and nightingales. This is a beautiful song, and the end of the song is death. However, the whole world is listening quietly, and God is smiling in the sky. Because the best things can only be bought with the deepest pain. ...
Hu Yangshu has a kind of Populus euphratica in Inner Mongolia, which has strong vitality: life, 200 years of decline; Death will last for two hundred years; Yes, 200 years is immortal.
Every fish cares that after the storm, many small fish washed ashore are trapped in shallow pits on the beach and cannot return to the sea. A little boy kept picking up small fish and throwing them into the sea. Passers-by can't help but say, "son, there are hundreds of thousands of small fish here, which you can't save." "I know," the boy replied. "Then why did you throw it away? Who cares? " "This little fish cares! This little fish cares! "
Give pain a place to go, not life. Recently, the research results of scientists in China and Canada show that suicide has become the first cause of death in China1people aged 5 to 34.
My friend said: my existence not only means that I am alive, but should have the quality of life; If I lose my quality of life, I choose to die, just like euthanasia, which is a respectable way to end. To some extent, I agree with her, but there is a premise that this way of choosing death is based on serious thinking and can bring sublimation to life. At least, it is a maintenance of life dignity. I hate people who end their lives under a little pressure. It's escape. What's more, suicide is used as a means of coercion. Such people end life itself, not the pain it brings them.
Frustration and anger are a kind of pain. The best way to end it is to give pain a place to go, not to give life a place to go. (China Youth Daily, April 1 1, Feng)
Who died in the explosion of fireworks workshop in Pingxiang, Jiangxi and the fire in Jiaozuo dance hall? Sichuan Hechuan shipwreck, Wuhan passenger plane crash, Dover stowaway tragic death, Jiangmen fireworks factory explosion.
Du Shugui, director of the Public Security Bureau of Bazhou City, Hebei Province, shot the gunman in the street before the final trial. Liu Dezhou, a public security instructor in Yuzhou, Henan Province, shot and killed three people and fled.
In the September 1 1 incident, two skyscrapers of the World Trade Center in New York were in ruins. The walls of Afghan homes are covered with bullet holes as dense as sieve holes, and there are rotting bodies in Jenin refugee camp.
Yao Li, a salesgirl of Daqing Branch of China Construction Bank, was forced to hand over more than 10,000 yuan to gangsters in order to avoid being robbed of more money. Although she immediately took the initiative to pay the money afterwards, the unit still implemented a "double opening" for her and expelled her from the party membership and public office. The bank made it clear: "As a native of party member, Yao Li should not hesitate to give everything, even her most precious life, at a critical moment." Finally, after the arbitration commission's ruling and the court's judgment, under the pressure of public opinion, the unit finally showed mercy: expelled from the party, recorded serious mistakes and compensated for losses.
Life has a price, and eventually it naturally evolves into a life without price and nothing. Under all kinds of wonderful flags, life is trampled, humiliated and even strangled. Life is valuable, and what is embodied in the bones is a sense of indifference or even indifference to life.
When Su Shi was a child, his mother wouldn't let the servants catch birds, so birds were not afraid of people. For several years, birds have built nests on low branches, and people can look down at the chicks in the nests. There are 400 or 500 rare species of phoenix birds, including tung flowers. Some people say that birds nest too far away from people, which will lead to the predation of snakes, rats and eagles; If people don't kill, they will naturally approach people. Be kind to life and gain the trust of others.
Epitaph is also a kind of culture. Shen Congwen's tomb has no magnificent tombs, no tomb pavilion to shelter from the wind and rain, and no grave bag. The most striking thing is that a large irregular colored stone stands on the overgrown ground. I saw that the front of the stone was enlarged by Shen Congwen's own handwriting: "If I think, I can understand' I', and if I think, I can understand' people'." On the ridge more than ten meters away, there is an inscription by Huang Yongyu, a great painter: "A soldier will either die in battle or return to his hometown.
The Light of Humanity In a prehistoric house site in Guanting Town, Minhe County, Qinghai Province, archaeologists recently found 14 dead bodies, five of whom died together in the southwest of the house site, and one of them seemed to be guarding four people with his hands. A pair of mother and son under the east wall, the mother kneels on the ground against the wall, with her right hand on the ground, a baby in her left hand and her cheek against the baby's head.
Why did Solon cry? A pedant saw Solon crying for a dead child and said to him, "If crying can't save anything, then why are you crying like this?" The sage replied, "That's because nothing can be redeemed."
When Huan Wen passed by Jincheng, he saw that all the willows I planted when I was the magistrate of Langyun grew to ten yards thick, and he said with emotion, "How can people be inferior when the wood is like this!" Climbing branches and hugging sticks, tears streaming down her face.
The text that interprets life, even ordinary life, contains the most important suspense: death. Death is always accompanied by life. Without the nothingness of death, there is no abundance of life. Death makes everything in the world so precious, so sacred and so beautiful. Standing on the brink of death, we tend to be more attached to life and more eager for it. Tension and anxiety, happiness and sadness, thoroughness and obsession, trance and sobriety, nostalgia and foresight, rich experiences and surging thoughts hover between their past, present and future. This moment in life is so unique, so inevitable and so thrilling!
Hugo wrote in his suicide note: "God, soul and responsibility, these three concepts are enough for a person. I have been living with this belief and will die with it. Truth, light, justice and conscience, this is God. " Newton's last words were very concise. His final evaluation of himself is the child who picked up several shells in front of the vast sea of truth. Einstein didn't want to turn his office into a memorial hall for people's pilgrimage. "Everything will die with me except my scientific ideal and social ideal." Dante's last words were only one sentence: "It is love that makes the sun and the earth turn".
The charm of life lies in constantly surpassing oneself, giving birth to ideas from pain and misfortune, enjoying the power of life from creation and transcendence, daring to bear suffering and tragedy, and breaking free from its own limitations.
Goethe's Death Goethe suffers from death phobia. He always avoids talking about the word "death". He can't watch the funeral. If the hearse passes by his house, he will be angry. However, he himself is not afraid of death. One spring evening, watching the sunset with ekman, he said to his friend, "When people live to 75 years old, they sometimes think of death. I feel calm at the thought of death, because I believe that our life is indestructible and will continue in the afterlife. Life is like the sun. We thought we saw it disappear, but in fact, it didn't disappear, it was still shining. "
Before he died, he cried, "Lighter ... lighter!" " "Finally, he grasped his daughter-in-law Otili's hand tightly and said weakly," No, little woman, just let me touch your gentle little hand for a while! "
Chekhov's last words Chekhov went to Heilin Mountain to seek physical recovery, but found death. Dr. Schwaller had champagne sent upstairs. Chekhov took the handed glass and turned to his wife Olga: "I haven't had champagne for a long time." He drank the wine in the cup slowly, then lay down and died peacefully.
Rousseau talks about death once, Diderot went to Montmorency to visit Rousseau. Rousseau pointed to a pond and said, "This is the place where I want to jump again and again to end my life!"
"Why didn't you do it?" Diderot asked.
"I put my hand into the water, but it felt too cold!" He replied.
It's beautiful over there 193 1 Edison's life has been dying since August. He was awake for a while before he died. "It's beautiful over there!" He said.
The sadness of Jin Shengtan Jin Shengtan played by the well when he was a child. He threw a stone into the well and went home and cried. Adults asked him why, and he said: I threw a stone into the well, thinking that I would never get out again, and I cried.
His last poem: "the drums are rushing, the sun is setting in the west, and there is no hotel in the grave." Who will stay tonight? "
Before the execution, he said, "decapitation is like the wind blowing a hat."
Epicurus "On Death" You should get used to believing that death is something that has nothing to do with us, because all good and evil are in the feeling, and death is just the loss of feeling. For this reason, a correct understanding of death has nothing to do with us, which makes us happy with the fact that life has death. This understanding does not add endless time to life, but liberates us from the desire for death. If a person correctly understands that there is nothing to be afraid of to stop living, then there is nothing to be afraid of in life ... so the most terrible of all evils-death-is insignificant to us, because when we exist, death has not come to us; When we die, we no longer exist.
"I am alive" once wrote, "On privilege, what is the third level? Someone asked French priest and constitutional theorist Sies: 1789 What did you do during the Great Revolution?
He replied, "I'm still alive."
Living, this is a trivial matter starting with a bowl of vegetable soup and half a shed. The desire to live is sometimes strong and sometimes slim, but she has been walking. The living person is not necessarily the best, but he has the responsibility to live. God can only give the following mission to the living person.
There is a deep Zen sentence in "Little Snow on the Red Furnace", which is bright in color and full of aesthetic feeling:
A little snow in the red stove.
Snowflakes are flying. One just landed on the fiery red stove.
Freeze it before it falls. We find that it exists, although in an instant, it immediately melts and returns to emptiness.
A person's life, no matter how long or short, is like this snowflake. Sprinkle from the sky and walk on Wan Li Road, which can be called "long"; The attitude of falling more and more is fast, it is impossible to turn back, and there is no time to think carefully, so it has already disappeared, so it is considered "short". -A second or two? Hundreds of years? The blazing fire devoured it overbearingly.
It existed, but it was too late to leave any traces.
When snowflakes push each other, it's just a meaningless chase.
Beauty, that's true. (Youth Digest, Li Bihua,1April 1997)