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I accept all people—even the people I find unacceptable.
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— Jarod Kintz

#discrimination #life #people #relationships #unacceptable

It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#in-love #life #love #moment #pretend

Do not complain beneath the stars about the lack of bright spots in your life. ↗

— Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

#stars #life

Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it. We live on the future: “tomorrow,” “later on,” “when you have made your way,” “you will understand when you are old enough.” Such irrelevancies are wonderful, for, after all, it’s a matter of dying. Yet a day comes when a man notices or says that he is thirty. Thus he asserts his youth. But simultaneously he situates himself in relation to time. He takes his place in it. He admits that he stands at a certain point on a curve that he acknowledges having to travel to its end. He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy. Tomorrow, he was longing for tomorrow, whereas everything in him ought to reject it. That revolt of the flesh is the absurd. ↗

— Albert Camus

#life

You’ve got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You’ve got a better grip than you realize. ↗

— Adam Young

#life

Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it. ↗

— Heather O'Neill

#sad #life

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#inspiration #life #problems #sorrows #struggles

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute ↗

— Rumi

#spirituality #sufi #wisdom #life

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#evil #fear #life

Wesley went everywhere with me from then on. I even wrapped him in baby blankets and held him in my arms while grocery shopping, to keep him warm during the first cold winter. Occasionally someone would ask to see "the baby," and when I opened the blanket, would leap back shrieking, "What is that?! A dinosaur?" Apparently, the world is full of educated adults with mortgages and stock portfolios who think people are walking around grocery stores with dinosaurs in their arms. ↗

— Stacey O'Brien

#humor #owls #science #education