#cal

She said one thing and I said another and the next thing I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life in the middle of that conversation. ↗

— Hank Moody

#conversation #love #life

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#attention #been #complaint #confine #consideration

Fluorine has a protecting action against caries, but this is a local effect. If you drink it, you are running the risk of all kinds of toxic actions. ↗

— Arvid Carlsson

#actions #against #drink #effect #kinds

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment. ↗

— Arvid Carlsson

#any #awkward #course #effect #local

Even our parents seemed agree more and more with the television version of things, listening to the reporters' inanities as though they could tell us the truth about our own lives ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#philosophical #the-virgin-suicides #life

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#memory #odd-apocalypse #odd-thomas #photographs #life

If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen. ↗

— Linda Barnes

#carlotta-carlyle #life #linda-barnes #steel-guitar #life

Every person writes his own book with the example of his life. ↗

— Casper Silk

#life

When everything is said and done, the only thing that really matters is the quality of the soul you build during the life you're given. ↗

— Kayt C. Peck

#magical-realism #life

Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavour, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#christianity #vocation #workplace #worldview #life