The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanRead
Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
Interpretation
Death is a natural part of life and should not be viewed negatively.
This quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman emphasizes that death should not be regarded as an evil or something to be feared, but rather as an integral aspect of existence that gives life its significance. Recognizing death as an essential condition encourages individuals to appreciate life more fully and understand the cyclical nature of existence.
In practice
In a eulogy, to highlight the importance of living life to the fullest.
The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.
We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.
The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.
Even nothing cannot last forever.
You want the good life? You live where white people live, you go to school where white people go to school, and you shop where white people shop.
I believe that everyone has to construct a mental model of what they are and where they came from and why they are as they are, and the word soul in each person is the name for that particular mish-mash of those fully formed ideas of one's nature.
There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
When god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began
Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.
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