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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• 占位点赞。看标题，瞬间想到余华的小说《活着》。 -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (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 不怕没柴烧. -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经来日不多，这碗鸡汤还能给他喝吗？如果不能， -唐宋韵- ♂ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 17:02:28

• I wonder what would be the best words of comfort. -唐宋韵- ♂ (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

• 好死不如赖活 -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，托尔斯泰自称是基督徒，但其实是宗教异见者。 -盈盈一笑间- ♀ (0 bytes) () 11/15/2023 postreply 18:31:05

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

• 就按字面翻：活着就是希望 -妖妖灵- ♀ (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