People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.
To live is to be vulnerable. A thin membrane of a soap bubble separates one from impenetrable hell. Ice on the road. The unlucky division of an aging cell. A child picks up a pill from the floor. Words stick to each other, line up, obedient to the great harmony of speech...
If you are filled with hatred, you can hardly enjoy genuine happiness. Hatred makes your personality extremely fragile and you lose your temper on the slightest pretext, which further creates enmity.
The rest is just wishes and hope, the most fragile of things.
If you have been converted easily, or following religion of your ancestors don't think you are an innocent, you are a monkey with a fragile identity
So are you willing to spend your numbered days to settle in a bad relationship? To spend time at a job that you never loved? To waste your days reminiscing the past, or to hold grudges for people who did you wrong? None of these things are worth sacrificing your life for. When you see life for the fragile gift it is, you would not want to spend even a second resenting or being frustrated.
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Trump is an erratic figure - seemingly fragile, consumed by his own unpopularity and desperate to somehow exceed Barack Obama in public acclaim.
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing.
Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation.
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
The world is such a blooming topsy-turvy, fragile, bleak place.
The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.
True delicacy is not a fragile thing.
Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.
Confidence is a very fragile thing.
Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
As for success, I don't care for it. It is a fragile thing.
I've taken great pride in not being fragile.
