#age

but good girls dont do that, dont make a fuss, dont upset parents. and i was a good girl so i curled up on the floor and sobbed silently instead ↗

— Laura Jarratt

#life #sad #skin-deep #teenage #life

Let us not be bored ↗

— Joe Buberger

#gaining-wisdom #growing-up #solitude #think #wise

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#language #spirituality #weakness #life

Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#cruel-lesson #direction #past #path #turning-back-the-pages

A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life. ↗

— Amy Hempel

#page- #life

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob. ↗

— Jim Rogers

#encourage #fact #invest #think #life

If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefulness. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before asking any service of them. Words are living things closely involved with human life. ↗

— Paul Nouge

#poetry #words #life

No, my advocates, my angels with sadist eyes, this is the beginning of my life, or the end. So I lean affirmation across the cafe table, and surrender my fifty years away with an easy smile. But the surety of my love is not dismayed by any eventuality which prudence or pity can conjure up, and in the end all that we can do is to sit at the table over which our hands cross, listening to tunes from the wurlitzer, with love huge and simple between us, and nothing more to be said. ↗

— Elizabeth Smart

#life

There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements...where an animal takes a human being or another animal to be one of it's kind. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magisterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nature's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life. ↗

— Lawrence Millman

#page- #life