#ding

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#story #witness #life

Being blind is the worst possible thing and asking me to read and write no more is torture. ↗

— Jessica E. Larsen

#reading-books #writing-books #writing-life #life

We profit little by books we do not enjoy. ↗

— John Lubbock

#reading #life

ll never forget that, because you were right. And I know you weren’t trying to teach me a lesson, but you did. Not everything is going to go my way and not everyone gets a happily ever after. Life is real and sometimes it’s ugly and you just have to learn how to cope. I’m going to accept it with a dose of your indifference, and move on. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#happy-ending #lesson-for-life #life #move-on #life

Sometimes you have to put yourself in other people’s shoes to really understand the hardships of their souls. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#kindness #life #love #philosophy #self-improvement

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness. ↗

— F.R. Leavis

#reading #life

The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself, the fact will be confirmed by the quality of your life. We will attain – even if only momentarily – a transparency and a radiance of being which results from living both within and beyond yourself. This is the promise and the excitement of self-understanding. ↗

— Don Richard Riso

#inspiration #personality-types #self-awareness #self-understanding #wisdom

She felt that she enjoyed it [horseback riding] in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

I left home and tried to live the life of a hermit, but I was still fighting myself. I went to England and worked as a chainman on the road. It was better therapy than the shrinks. Building a two-mile road gave me internal peace. ↗

— Brian Strang

#cricket #inner-peace #life

Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love." Napoleon Hill ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#wealth-building #wealth-creation #wealth-strategies #life