#co

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#nico #percy-jackson #life

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #life

The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers...I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. ↗

— Willa Cather

#happiness #life #nature #success #life

Drama is life with the dull parts left out. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#drama #writing #life

Why be alone when we can be together baby You can make my life worthwhile And I can make you start to smile ↗

— Mr. Big

#love #relationships #romance #smile #song

Everyone in life has a purpose, even if it's to serve as a bad example ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#life

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#course #distrust #i #improve #lives

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#application #clever #consider #constant #hell

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#conduct-of-life #double-standards #hypocrisy #morality #social-norms

And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing. ↗

— Ally Condie

#life #matched #life