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406a685 You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water... life relationships Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
ebdc978 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. god hope inspiration kingdom life love religion reverence thankful truth verse worship Anonymous
04186b2 Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what's called at home. life present sleep waking-up Christopher Isherwood
3367966 Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep. life E.M. Forster
9ed22e7 No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace. life ordinary H. P. Lovecraft
5cf452e Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world america country greatest inspirational life monologue scene the-newsroom tv-series world Aaron Sorkin
d56d666 Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths. life George R.R. Martin
ae158b9 I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. growing-up growth life moving-forward moving-on self Roger Zelazny
8843716 The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I've chosen to follow. life Nicholas Sparks
62b98b9 It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships. friendship inspirational life love relationships Jonathan Anthony Burkett
872361e I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...] inspirational life love Stephanie Perkins
67e5353 When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. inspirational life perspective Joan Marques
8e2226d Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again. life Robert Jordan
d0f2312 He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive. ian-mcewan life love love-conquers-all sad Ian McEwan
4c58bc3 It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die. life magic Neil Gaiman
8e1f6c3 if i'm going to fuck up my life, does it really matter which way i do it?. life salem-falls Jodi Picoult
a062275 You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself life perspective strength Ken Kesey
13241c8 When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life? best-day inspirational life motivational today Steve Maraboli
250fbfc Blind, broke, jobless, and frustrated, Kevin found it difficult to get through the following few months. But he had one big thing going for him hope hope-quotes inspirational inspirational-quotes life sober sobriety sobriety-courage Traci Medford-Rosow
fb27303 When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift. inspirational life Michael J. Sullivan
27b8f3e When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around. humans life Tom Robbins
9b62e1c I'm living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night--in the moments before I pass off into sleep--ideas explode into my head like fireworks. There is no greater joy than the burst of solution to a problem. Incredible that anything could happen to take away this bubbling energy, the zest that fills everything I do. It's as if all the knowledge I've soaked in during the past months has coalesced and lifted me to a peak of light and understanding. This is beauty, love, and truth all rolled into one. This is joy. learning life meaning truth Daniel Keyes
1fb3c02 "A Second Childhood." When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think that I shall not be too old To stare at everything; As I stared once at a nursery door Or a tall tree and a swing. Wherein God's ponderous mercy hangs On all my sins and me, Because He does not take away The terror from the tree And stones still shine along the road That are and cannot be. Men grow too old for love, my love, Men grow too old for wine, But I shall not grow too old to see Unearthly daylight shine, Changing my chamber's dust to snow Till I doubt if it be mine. Behold, the crowning mercies melt, The first surprises stay; And in my dross is dropped a gift For which I dare not pray: That a man grow used to grief and joy But not to night and day. Men grow too old for love, my love, Men grow too old for lies; But I shall not grow too old to see Enormous night arise, A cloud that is larger than the world And a monster made of eyes. Nor am I worthy to unloose The latchet of my shoe; Or shake the dust from off my feet Or the staff that bears me through On ground that is too good to last, Too solid to be true. Men grow too old to woo, my love, Men grow too old to wed; But I shall not grow too old to see Hung crazily overhead Incredible rafters when I wake And I find that I am not dead. A thrill of thunder in my hair: Though blackening clouds be plain, Still I am stung and startled By the first drop of the rain: Romance and pride and passion pass And these are what remain. Strange crawling carpets of the grass, Wide windows of the sky; So in this perilous grace of God With all my sins go I: And things grow new though I grow old, Though I grow old and die." death joy life love old wonder G.K. Chesterton
fd06ae1 "I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? life love people Roald Dahl
b6098d0 The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family. If you don't have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don't have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish'. concern fact family life love support truth Mitch Albom
bbd77bc My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice. life mothers Amy Sedaris
6a01b68 According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all. life success Jon Krakauer
1dafebb ...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there? interesting life wonder L.M. Montgomery
5ec5e35 ...people with nothing to declare carry the most. carry life nothing struggles Jonathan Safran Foer
b9ce833 Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone. achievement change comfort-zone courage dream dreams inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational start-up step-out-of-your-comfort-zone Roy T. Bennett
d5eaf46 But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. life work Hubert Selby Jr.
f737c21 Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom. life meaning misery Voltaire
c890643 Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive. accidents fantasy heartbreak hurt inspiration inspirational life life-goes-on love moïra-fowley-doyle staying-alive the-accident-season truth unique young-adult Moïra Fowley-Doyle
9ee8842 You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own. college education life Jeannette Walls
7d2472f There're things we keep hidden from one another. Things we hide from ourselves. Things that are kept hidden from us. And things no one knows. You always learn the damnedest things at the worst possible times. harry-dresden life Jim Butcher
ef9c6c7 "The things that stress me out haven't changed. But I don't wanna lose anything. life manga nana Ai Yazawa
a65c090 Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted. fate fear life Jacqueline Carey
43a3fdb I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it. fooball humour life Nick Hornby
dff8feb Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't. choice inspirational life opportunity-temptation temptation Steve Maraboli
76a06ff "Learn to drive?" "Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger." humour life passenger Diana Wynne Jones
8ed60eb It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any. conduct-of-life life rules society Wallace Stegner
a6c0ee5 Hidup hanya ada erti pada yang bahagia. inspirational life truth Hlovate
64a7f82 It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin. life life-philosophy philosophy pumpkin Alexander McCall Smith
3caa3dc We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope. hope life Ned Vizzini
81325b9 Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken? eragon inheritance inheritance-cycle inspirational life spiritual young-adult Christopher Paolini
d246386 Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that's best for us. christian god life mistakes nesbit railway reading story writing E. Nesbit
0b5010f People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one. life lives Holly Black
817ff85 Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance. action agreement-with-reality circumstances happiness inspirational life mindset Steve Maraboli
a03c112 Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. inspirational life past questioning regret Colleen Hoover
7f4becc Even if it were possible to cast my horoscope in this one life, and to make an accurate prediction about my future, it would not be possible to 'show' it to me because as soon as I saw it my future would change by definition. This is why Werner Heisenberg's adaptation of the Hays Office--the so-called principle of uncertainty whereby the act of measuring something has the effect of altering the measurement--is of such importance. In my case the difference is often made by publicity. For example, and to boast of one of my few virtues, I used to derive pleasure from giving my time to bright young people who showed promise as writers and who asked for my help. Then some profile of me quoted someone who disclosed that I liked to do this. Then it became something widely said of me, whereupon it became almost impossible for me to go on doing it, because I started to receive far more requests than I could respond to, let alone satisfy. Perception modifies reality: when I abandoned the smoking habit of more than three decades I was given a supposedly helpful pill called Wellbutrin. But as soon as I discovered that this was the brand name for an antidepressant, I tossed the bottle away. There may be successful methods for overcoming the blues but for me they cannot include a capsule that says: 'Fool yourself into happiness, while pretending not to do so.' I should actually my mind to be strong enough to circumvent such a trick. assistance bupropion depression future happiness hays-office horoscopes life measurement mentorship perception publicity reality self-delusion smoking soothsaying uncertainty-principle virtues werner-heisenberg writers Christopher Hitchens
d25b59e Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there. life thought-provoking Tom Robbins
e43560c The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. humanity life nature nurture philosophy roots Milan Kundera
3f407ad After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not there to measure against. And when I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. If I had to live on without you I know I could not do it. But I hope, I have this vision of you walking unencumbered, with your shining hair in the sun. I have not seen this with my eyes, but only with my imagination, that makes pictures, that always wanted to paint you, shining; but I hope that this vision will be true, anyway. life Audrey Niffenegger
6c9652d There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions. life Jodi Picoult
d799333 I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we're still alive. life Stephen King
240d87b Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not "in love", one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love - but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love. inspirational life love philosophy wisdom Osho
61591ab she wasn't very interesting but few people are. bukowski conversation death family humanity interesting life love people poem poetry society women Charles Bukowski
56f2ec8 Don't tell thin women to eat a cheeseburger. Don't tell fat women to put down the fork. Don't tell underweight men to bulk up. Don't tell women with facial hair to wax, don't tell uncircumcised men they're gross, don't tell muscular women to go easy on the dead-lift, don't tell dark-skinned women to bleach their vagina, don't tell black women to relax their hair, don't tell flat-chested women to get breast implants, don't tell "apple-shaped" women what's "flattering," don't tell mothers to hide their stretch marks, and don't tell people whose toes you don't approve of not to wear flip-flops. And so on, etc, etc, in every iteration until the mountains crumble to the sea. Basically, just go ahead and CEASE telling other human beings what they "should" and "shouldn't" do with their bodies unless a) you are their doctor, or b) SOMEBODY GODDAMN ASKED YOU. inspirational life people society women Lindy West
03c021e To put meaning in one's life may end in madness inspirational life meaning Edgar Lee Masters
408de39 Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn't make you a weak person. It's hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you to live. Because it's a maybe. A 'maybe someday things won't always be this shit.' And that 'maybe' immediately makes the shittiness better. inspirational life love hope-life Cecelia Ahern
c7a2805 To live is to be haunted. life live Philip K. Dick
04d6d91 One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it. death interesting life Jimmy Buffett
84f92da That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially self-pity. No event in life is so terrible that one cannot rise above it. life pity Robin Hobb
33e8ebc "Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking." decisions influence life money opinions success Napoleon Hill
fed81ce at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you've ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered. life strength inspirational Cecelia Ahern
692c98d My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year. life Haruki Murakami
7039cd0 With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything... life solitude Saul Bellow
b2f5c51 it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be life Paulo Coelho
1f99ca1 Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate. Adventures do occur, but not punctually. life E.M. Forster
212a089 The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred. dune life Frank Herbert
06b5e63 "It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare." "And what is that nightmare, Craig?" "Life." life nightmare Ned Vizzini
4f822d6 Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality. dream inspirational life Santosh Kalwar
13d0dbe I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation. art artist connection humanity inspirational life lyrics music musician poetry song-lyrics songs songwriting truth world Criss Jami
f678d53 Sober, gainfully employed, and physically secure once again, Kevin began to relax. His confidence slowly returned. For the first time since the onset of his blindness, he let his guard down and a crack in his carefully constructed veneer formed hope inspirational inspirational-quotes life life-quotes light sober sober-reflection sobriety-courage Traci Medford-Rosow
f3d6a87 As Kevin climbed the three flights of stairs to his apartment, his brain formulated a vague plan of action. He could not have explained it to anyone or even to himself in coherent sentences. But the outline was there in Kevin's subconscious. It would not only change his life, but many others, as well call-to-action hope inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude life Traci Medford-Rosow
4a3884f It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to die, it's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it. dying growth ignorance learning life Mitch Albom
4ff3d54 On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. life loneliness Cormac McCarthy
baca72d For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after. life listening Ursula K. Le Guin
bdb5b63 But now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird. dark-bird life present Audrey Niffenegger
379ac68 Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying. life siddhartha uncertainty unity Hermann Hesse
d72d234 "I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment..." life spirituality C.S. Lewis
ba595c3 She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible. inspirational life philosophy individualism Ayn Rand
23f429c I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me to not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough--but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation. eat-pray-love elizabeth-gilbert life Elizabeth Gilbert
6a30958 The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, 'I've got responsibilities. life responsibility Richard Bach
e24f354 How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small. humanity life Paul Bowles
9273b8a Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. life Isabel Allende
b3666a9 Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy. life Orhan Pamuk
d708ea6 In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . . ben dystopia king life man network richard richards running stephen survival Stephen King
65ae590 It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane. inspirational life humorous Terry Pratchett
00bddd0 If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten? life thought-provoking inspirational Jonathan Safran Foer
f5857f1 The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are. inspirational life Mark Nepo
b87ddee Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why. death life wisdom Glen Cook
6de5df6 I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. life William Faulkner
4866b63 "I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it-our life-hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly. death inspirational life Marcel Proust
6a75b18 The clear awareness of having been born into a losing struggle need not lead one into despair. I do not especially the idea that one day I shall be tapped on the shoulder and informed, not that the party is over but that it is most assuredly going on--only henceforth in my absence. (It's the second of those thoughts: the edition of the newspaper that will come out on the day after I have gone, that is the more distressing.) Much more horrible, though, would be the announcement that the party was continuing forever, and that I was forbidden to leave. Whether it was a hellishly bad party or a party that was perfectly heavenly in every respect, the moment that it became eternal and compulsory would be the precise moment that it began to pall. atheism death despair eternal-life heaven hell life meaning-of-life obituary Christopher Hitchens
4cb5233 He killed himself for wanting to live. life suicide Markus Zusak
fa2043d The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy. choice choose happiness happy inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes live-life-happy living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
25b8298 You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you'd like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you've been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can't be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it. life motivational self-reliance Darren Shan
eeda5c0 They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die. life love relationships Lorrie Moore
3557430 To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. life mindfulness sensuality James Baldwin
e338e81 Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy! cake cakes happiness inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes joy life life-and-living living looking-no-further the-way-of-the-cake the-way-to-happiness understanding-happiness understanding-joy C. JoyBell C.
011bf60 By the age of twenty, you know you're not going to be a rock star. By twenty-five, you know you're not going to be a dentist or any kind of professional. And by thirty, darkness starts moving in- you wonder if you're ever going to be fulfilled, let alone wealthy and successful. By thirty-five, you know, basically, what you're going to be doing for the rest of your life, and you become resigned to your fate... ...I mean, why do people live so long? What could be the difference between death at fifty-five and death at sixty-five or seventy-five or eighty-five? Those extra years... what benefit could they possibly have? Why do we go on living even though nothing new happens, nothing new is learned, and nothing new is transmitted? At fifty-five, your story's pretty much over. fulfillment life mid-life-crisis quarter-life-crisis Douglas Coupland
abb9f32 there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity. bukowski clarity death life loneliness lonely love nonsense poem poetry Charles Bukowski
43c30fb In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us. dogs life relationship John Grogan
68a8b1a "The mind-is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind- life poem Robert Frost
b267fb5 In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all. life roland stephen-king time wind-through-the-keyhole Stephen King
e68e6ff Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you. inspirational life love Oscar Wilde
2650d0e People are supposed to care. It's good that people mean something to you, that you miss people when they're gone. life people John Green
058ab00 Find a voice in a whisper. life Martin Luther King Jr.
50e767a Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead. inspirational life Heather Vogel Frederick
beb87b7 The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me. inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life living onion-skins people persona the-world C. JoyBell C.
aa7bcac "Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?" she asks. "No, what?" "Blue sky." "You're zoomed." "You ever eat blue sky?" "No," I admit. "Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored." humor inspirational life obvious Rodman Philbrick
12c2465 You can't control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can't do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else choices inspirational life Marie Sexton
13bd1ea Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive. life truth Philip Roth
a7df3b3 But in a way you can say that after leaving the sea, after all those millions of years of living inside of the sea, we took the ocean with us. When a woman makes a baby, she gives it water, inside her body, to grow in. That water inside her body is almost exactly the same as the water of the sea. It is salty, by just the same amount. She makes a little ocean, in her body. And not only this. Our blood and our sweating, they are both salty, almost exactly like the water from the sea is salty. We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears. life ocean Gregory David Roberts
1e0fec2 Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with. free-will life recipe Haruki Murakami
cd46628 ...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love. life love lovers Milan Kundera
ef5820c No lake so still but it has its wave inspirational life philosophy Confucius
1644dcd Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual. action change inspirational letting-go life motivational simplicity spiritual-growth Steve Maraboli
cf706a7 Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they can afford, take their own kind of take on training kids to be honest and polite. But what they don't realize is no matter how much they try, their kids will get out there. Out to this complicated little world. If they are lucky they will survive, through backstabbers, broken hearts, failures and all the kinds of invisible insane pressures out there. But most kids get lost in them. They will get caught up in all kinds of bubbles. Trouble bubbles. Bubbles that continuously tell them that they are not good enough. Bubbles that get them carried away with what they think is love, give them broken hearts. Bubbles that will blur the rest of the world to them, make them feel like that is it, that they've reached the end. Sometimes, even the really smart kids, make stupid decisions. They lose control. Parents need to realize that the world is getting complicated every second of every day. With new problems, new diseases, new habits. They have to realize the vast probability of their kids being victims of this age, this complicated era. Your kids could be exposed to problems that no kind of therapy can help. Your kids could be brainwashed by themselves to believe in insane theories that drive them crazy. Most kids will go through this stage. The lucky ones will understand. They will grow out of them. The unlucky ones will live in these problems. Grow in them and never move forward. They will cut themselves, overdose on drugs, take up excessive drinking and smoking, for the slightest problems in their lives broken-hearts bullying childhood childhood-trauma crying cutting-your-self depression emo emotion growing-up happiness helplessness hopeless-romantic infatuation inspirational joy lfe-essons life love parents phases romance sorrow teenage-love teenagers trapped Thisuri Wanniarachchi
02ce2e4 We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. inspirational journey life purpose Gloria Gaither
0c4536f Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane. competition life Haruki Murakami
fd121f8 Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life. life remember secret Gregory Maguire
3237455 The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth. But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must constantly be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on cliches and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. You must continually start over and challenge yourself. learning life mastery perpetual spirit student suffering truth zen Robert Greene
96b661a "I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral--these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, "I loved him. We all loved him so much." I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used. I vowed then and there that I would never hesitate to speak up to the people I loved. They deserved to know they gave meaning to my life. They deserved to know I thought the world of them." life love meaning David Levithan
d438861 You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you. attitude inspirational life potential Myles Munroe
d00bcd4 Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it. krishna life palace-of-illusions panchaali seriousness Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
f09239a It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said. It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.' Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun. emotion life philosophy sun David Gemmell
ebdc401 But I do know we're deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don't satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted. life loving-relationship materialism satisfaction truth universe Mitch Albom
cb6e6b7 A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margret, the cat members of Rent, Vaclav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal. humour life philosophy Douglas Coupland
df63ca0 "Sacrfice," the captain said. "You made one. I made one. We all made them. But you were angry over yours. You kept thinking about what you lost. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to." life Mitch Albom
229f4cc You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you failure inspirational life mistakes motivation motivational success Maxwell Maltz
f40a4c3 My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can. heartbreak life Anne Brontë
6ff622a So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled. life live strength Alexandre Dumas
336ffed My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That's enough, I myself choose my way death faith friend funny god humor inspirational life love relationship religion truth Ali Shariati
682f264 Happiness consists not of having, but of being; not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart at peace with itself. A martyr at the stake may have happiness that a king on his throne might envy. Man is the creator of his own happiness. It is the aroma of life, lived in harmony with high ideals. For what a man has he may be dependent upon others; what he is rests with him alone. happiness ideals joy life David O. McKay
1399475 We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create. life stephen king
14594b2 Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes. life Charlotte Brontë
14dc8ef It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face. lady-midnight lies life love the-dark-artifices truth Cassandra Clare
a7f0f11 He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives. grief life Nicholas Sparks
d1b7d5e Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago. evil life mastermind ozymandias plot Alan Moore
5bda377 "Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Helen Burns" jane-eyre life life-lessons Charlotte Brontë
00023d5 Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread family-values life mafia rules Mario Puzo
58116c8 "But I'm not guilty," said K. "there's been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We're all human beings here, one like the other." "That is true" said the priest "but that is how the guilty speak" guilty human human-condition life mistakes priest trial Franz Kafka
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