#co

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being... ↗

— Mary Shelley

#life #loneliness #love #relationships #romance

We need only in cold blood ACT as if the thing in question were real, and keep acting as if it were real, and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real. ↗

— William James

#life

Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#consciousness #life #life

If you find yourself cutting corners, go in a circle instead ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#comedy #humor #humour #life #philosophy

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl. -In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#becoming-better #trials-of-life #life

He likes to pretend he lives inside the comic books. I guess a fake life inside a cartoon is a lot better than his real life. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#life

Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#jurassic-park #life

Those are big collisions, Hally. They make for a lot of bruises. People get hurt in all that bumping, and we're sick and tired of it now. It's been going on for too long. Are we never going to get it right?...Learn to dance life like champions instead of always being just a bunch of beginners at it? ↗

— Athol Fugard

#bruised #collision #dance #life #life-lesson

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome. ↗

— Lori Lansens

#life

Nor did he care about his childhood, for certainly I never heard him speak of it. I once questioned him about his early days and he would not answer. ‘What is the egg to the eagle?’ he asked me… ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#human-nature #living #perspective #quote #quotes