Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.
Interpretation
Life requires active participation and decision-making; you can either take action or miss out on opportunities.
This quote by Yasmina Khadra emphasizes the relentless pace of life and the necessity to engage with it actively. It suggests that life is constantly moving forward, much like a train that does not halt for anyone, and encourages individuals to seize opportunities rather than passively observing from the sidelines.
In practice
During a motivational speech emphasizing the importance of taking risks.
If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.
It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from the land of the Pashtuns, where desertification proceeds at a steady, implacable crawl even in the consciences and intellects of men.
You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?
You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.
I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Life is like a box of chocolates.
When doctors tell you that you have three weeks to live, you try to live a lifetime of moments in three weeks. But you say, 'To hell with three weeks.'
You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
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