#aw

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#awareness #life #life

You are my heart, my life, my entire existence." -Ash ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#iron-fey-trilogy #julie-kagawa #love #life

Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#earth #heaven #life #life

You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers – the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#breaking-dawn #motherhood #self-sacrifice #life

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others? ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#consciousness #help #world #life

Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#jo-march #longing #lost-love #love #spoil

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#life #lynchings #life

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#nagasawa #life

My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#breaking-dawn #twilight-saga #life

There's nothing I want. There's nothing I can't do. I don't care about anything. No matter what, I am an imposter. An actor in my own life. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#life