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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#raison-d-être #life

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#success #life

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#dead #frankenstein #life #life

When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn't control what came through it. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#literature #reading #life

I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#life

Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself. ↗

— Jane Seabrook

#temptation #humor

Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#economy #life

In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along ↗

— Billy Joel

#love #music #life

Fame is foolish, it is pointless, meaningless. Even if the whole world knows you, how does it make you richer? How does it make your life more blissful? How does it help you to be more understanding, to be more aware? To be more alert, to be more alive? ↗

— Osho

#life #life

Among the many worlds which man did not receive as a gift of nature, but which he created with his own mind, the world of books is the greatest. Every child, scrawling his first letters on his slate and attempting to read for the first time, in so doing, enters an artificial and complicated world; to know the laws and rules of this world completely and to practice them perfectly, no single human life is long enough. Without words, without writing, and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. And if anyone wants to try to enclose in a small space in a single house or single room, the history of the human spirit and to make it his own, he can only do this in the form of a collection of books. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#history #literature #words #life