#al

Living is abnormal. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#living

your love, your facial expression, your spirit and your words to the wise is my fervency: special for my mom and dad ↗

— S. Ikom Afriani

#inspirational

It is as though they simply cannot contemplate the notion of a short, slight man who dresses and moves like a popular (mis)conception of a homosexual being attractive to millions of women. ↗

— Dave Hill

#music #prince #sexuality #life

He wanted to tell her, from the greater perspective he had, that to own only a little talent, like his, was an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time, and liked yourself too little. He wanted to assure her that she had missed nothing ↗

— Mary Robison

#life #talent #life

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#love #our-mutual-friend #love

It's the things you do that you don't have to do that always determine the difference when it is too late to do anything about it. ↗

— Timothy Michael McDougall

#father #inspirational #life #life-lessons #inspirational

Life is about being optimistic and living life in despair is not the last resort of every problem ↗

— saleemdurrani

#inspirational

A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos. ↗

— Yehuda Amichai

#healing #life

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl. -In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#becoming-better #trials-of-life #life

-Speaking about Vaccinations - "If you accept the truth after the fact, the pain will last a life time. ↗

— Richard Diaz

#illness #vaccination #vaccine #life