#be

You attend the funeral, you bid the dead farewell. You grieve. Then you continue with your life. And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. But this will happen less and less as time goes on. She is dead. You are alive. So live. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death #grief #death

I want to learn your trickery and feel what it’s like to have me wrapped around your finger. I want to lie to everyone because it gets me where I want faster. I want to be like you, because you are blind; and now that I finally see, I don’t want to. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#blind #breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. ↗

— Ishmael Beah

#gone #grandmother #inspiration #ishmael #long

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#afraid #behind #doors #feel #i

So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for? ↗

— Yana Toboso

#black-butler #inspirational #kuroshitsuji #inspirational

I would die for you, but I won’t live for you. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#inspirational #life #quotes #quotes-that-makes-sense #the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower

Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out, just take their oxygen and burn brighter. ↗

— Katelyn S. Irons

#inspirational #shine #stargirl #inspirational

This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions. ↗

— Otto Schily

#asking #between #come #contribution #cup

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations. ↗

— Wally Schirra

#became #craved #even #glenn #how

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#committees #confronting #conscience #courage #everything