#cal

Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it! ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#life-lessons #personal-development #personal-growth #philisophical #philospohy

Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#jodi-picoult #life #moral #perfect-match #ran

The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#philosophy #philosophy-of-life #philosophy-of-people #life

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#heroes #heroism #life #practicality #life

And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in the shadows. Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know, that granting me my life today, this man has killed me, even so. - Javert ↗

— Victor Hugo

#les #mis #miserable #musical #life

But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#historical-fiction #life

Probably? So you're asking me to trust my life to steel wool and peanut butter?" "Poisoned peanut butter." "Cal, I don't care if it's nuclear peanut butter. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#cal #peanut #peeps #poisoned #scott-westerfeld

But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#life

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#elements #healthy #life #necessary #order

Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago. ↗

— Alan Moore

#evil #life #mastermind #ozymandias #plot