#dom

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#wisdom #life

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance. ↗

— Arthur J. Russell

#life #truth #wisdom #life

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. ↗

— Edward Gorey

#ennui #life #life

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#wisdom #life

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #metaphor #wisdom #life

If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first. ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

#philosophy #wisdom #life

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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Excellence/Perfection is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#wisdom #life

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own. ↗