#ak

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#heartbreak #life #life

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life

As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was the opposite. Here, in the circle of Akiva's presence, even as they spoke of war and siege and enduring enmity, she felt herself being drawn into the warm absoluteness and rightness of him, like he was both place and person and, contrary to all reason, exactly where she was supposed to be. ↗

— Laini Taylor

#karou #life

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#moments #recast #take-back #life

It's shocking the things we call love. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #mistakes #surprise #life

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#life #luck #make-it-happen #success #winning

Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that? ↗

— Arina Tanemura

#takuto #life

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#bear #burden #i #loneliness #makes

But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life. ↗

— John Piper

#making-a-difference #passion #life

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#shakespeare #life