الحياة جدل بين الذوق والتذوق

I tasted life.

I learned that every mortal will taste death, But only some will taste life.

Life eats life to live.

Translation: Seize we the sweets of life whene’er we may,
E’en though some bitter taste therein we find,
For ne’er on earth can man know perfect joy.

The need to resolve the inescapable tension between honoring life around us and taking it in order to live is part of being human.

We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

الحياه فصول ولكل فصل مذاقه وطوبى لمن أحب الدنيا بما هي دنيا الله

"It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it. And now I know it, I know it not only because I remember hearing it, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. And it is good for me to know it!"

Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN.

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.

It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.

We all owe death a life.