#fe

I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#roses #life

The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#life #the-past #life

I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed. ↗

— Ivo Andrić

#life

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white. ↗

— William James

#life #life

Your purpose is your why. ↗

— Deborah Day

#purpose #purpose-in-life #values #life

Creating characters is easy. It’s getting them to behave that’s the problem. ↗

— Steven Ramirez

#life

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#happiness #hope #sentimentality #wishes #wishing

my life will never be where you think you can find it--too bad for me ↗

— Laure

#life

Tomorrow’s sun is on it’s way – a relentless sun, inscrutable like life. ↗

— Machado de Assis

#life #sun #life

I am a man without many pleasures in life, a man whose few pleasures are small, but a man whose small pleasures are very important to him. One of them is eating. One reading. Another reading while eating. ↗

— Amanda Filipacchi

#life