APAD: While there's life there's hope.

Meaning: As long as you are alive, there is hope as your situation may improve

 

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This saying was found in antiquity.

 

Millennia later, Tolstoy expounded: "Life is everything. Life is God.

Everything changes and moves and that movement is God. And while there is life

there is joy in consciousness of the divine. To love life is to love God. Harder

and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in

innocent sufferings."

 

He mentioned dukkah and missed hope. He could be a Buddhist :-)

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• 占位點讚。看標題，瞬間想到餘華的小說《活著》。 -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 11:05:02

• Love the movie. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 20:34:07

• True! 留得青山在 不怕沒柴燒. -暖冬cool夏- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 11:41:00

• That's a great translation. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 20:34:42

• 如果病榻上的老者已經來日不多，這碗雞湯還能給他喝嗎？如果不能， -唐宋韻- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 17:02:28

• I wonder what would be the best words of comfort. -唐宋韻- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 17:03:18

• No idea. But I sure hope I won't need any word of comfort -7grizzly- ♀ (209 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 20:40:56

• That'll sound like sarcasm :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 20:35:30

• 好死不如賴活 -方外居士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 17:37:24

• Up to a point. Yes. -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 20:41:23

• 查了一下，托爾斯泰自稱是基督徒，但其實是宗教異見者。 -盈盈一笑間- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 18:31:05

• You've got him, chief! -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 20:41:46

• 就按字麵翻：活著就是希望 -妖妖靈- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 20:45:58

• Yes. Take real good care of that living temple :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 20:58:08

• There is hope, so there is life: Not other around Tolstoy -TJKCB- ♀ (1976 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 22:56:31

• Confusing logic. Sorry. I confess. I was a 理科生 :-) -7grizzly- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/16/2023 postreply 09:33:22