I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn’t try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
We could do it, you know.”
“What?”
“Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it.
If you walked away from a
toxic, negative, abusive,
one-sided, dead-end
low vibrational
relationship or friendship
— you won.
Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well.
This world
that was our home
for a brief spell
never brought us anything
but pain and grief;
its a shame that not one of our problems
was ever solved.
We depart
with a thousand regrets
in our hearts.
Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you.
They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine if everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire.
Love them no matter what.
Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.
I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade…and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn’t suck.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
Life is the tragedy,’ she said bitterly. ‘You know how they categorize Shakespeare’s plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it’s a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it’s a tragedy. So we’re all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn’t with a goddamn wedding.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that’s when you can do your best… for yourself and for others.
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
I don’t judge people.
It blurs out the center of my attention,
my focus,
myself.
Obligasyon kong maglayag, karapatan kong pumunta sa kung saan ko gusto, responsibilidad ko ang buhay ko.
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
You only get one shot at life, one life to live, make the most out of it put as many smiles as you can on people’s faces, help as many people as you can, get you some paper. Live life, you and your folks.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
I’m not saying it’s going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that’s no reason to give up. You’ll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.
Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on–that is, badly.
For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I’ve made.
There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can’t do.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
There’s a sorrow and pain in everyone’s life, but every now and then there’s a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.
It’s only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn’t be trusted?
One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
Tristan was silent for a few moments, looking at the leaves before them. “Life isn’t about the past and the future. It’s about today.” He paused. “It’s about five minutes from now and two seconds ago. It’s moments, you know? Not years. Years aren’t what define us.
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
…nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are. Sometimes I feel the same as you: I can’t risk having people behold me as I truly am. But there’s also a small voice in the back of my mind, a voice that tells me, “You will miss so much by being so guarded.
The things that stress me out haven’t changed.
But I don’t wanna lose anything.
So I thought that at least I would change.
I’m lucky…that I’m afraid of losing something.
Here, start living moment to moment totally and intensely, joyfully and playfully — and you will see that nothing goes out of control; that your intelligence becomes sharper; that you become younger; that your love becomes deeper. And when you go out into the world, wherever you go, spread life, playfulness, joy, as far away as possible — to every nook and corner of the earth.
Adrian von Trotha was thinking, “Soldiers must obey their officers and I shall enforce that! As well, the enemy will not obtain any leniency from me!
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.
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