#bra

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#library

My name is Brandt Cross, and my life used to be seven kinds of fucked up.... Now it's eight... ↗

— Jus Accardo

#life

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#higher-life #lower-life #struggle #life

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains. ↗

— Julian Barbour

#created #illusion #our #passage #simply

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#life

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#bravery #country #life #men #life

Now here's the heavy irony. So I went back to New York to become a librarian. To actually seek out this thing I've been fleeing all my life. and (here it comes): a librarian is just not that easy to become...Apparently there's a whole filing system and annotating system and stamping system and God knows what you have to learn before you qualify. ↗

— Elaine Dundy

#life

Every time you walk into church, the first thing you see is a man on a cross. He died to save us-not to give us everything we want-to save us. That's what's so hard to understand. It's not about him answering your prayers-it's about you being like him not matter what happens on this Earth. 'Thy will be done.' There will always be sadness and pain. ↗

— Jack Mayer

#life-in-a-jar #life

I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing pricks who haven't gotten laid since Bush Senior was president... Do you know who studies sociology? People who would rather observe life than live it. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#brains #guts #intelligence #sociology #life

I’m here for every bit of your life. The bad parts, the scary parts. And I vow to do all you ask of me that is fair … even at the end.” I knew I didn’t have to elaborate; I could see that he’d gotten it, and that it moved him. "I do. ↗

— Lia Habel

#nora #vows #life