#al

Mortality is one of the greatest gifts ever bestowed. After a long and fruitful life, we are able to rest. ↗

— Nancy Straight

#life

Work hard, do your best, live the truth, trust yourself, have some fun...and you'll have no regrets. ↗

— Byrd Baggett

#honesty #life-lessons #morals #team-work #values

To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#talking-about-books #life

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#continuous #external #internal #life #relations

As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal. ↗

— Arthur Wellesley Wellington

#famous #irish #stable #life

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

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better. ↗

— George Balanchine

#better #equal #first #god #made

Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty. ↗

— Franny Billingsley

#reality #stories #life

We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, couldn't be bothered to give us an interview. I guess there's a Trent & Brent in every city, in every field. I didn't make it and I don't belong, so I'll just go through life hating them. ↗

— John Grisham

#life

The Lord of Light in his wisdom made us male and female, two parts of a greater whole. In our joining there is power. Power to make life. Power to make light. Power to cast shadows. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#male #life