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This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#loneliness #life

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant. ↗

— Aberjhani

#contemporary-literature #contemporary-poetry #destiny #famous-poets #initiation

There are two important things for full success in life: 1. Don´t tell everything you know. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#life

Dios, she'd never come so hard in her life. How many people died this way? How would he ever explain to the ambulance crews that he'd chained his girlfriend out on the deck and killed her with too many orgasms? ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#sex-heaven #life

An opportunity, no matter how small it is, is still worth a golden chance. So take it or have regrets for the rest of your life. ↗

— Francisca Olivia

#opportunity #quote #regrets #life

Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. . . At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day. . . Discipline yourself to attain it, but accept that which comes to you with deep trust. . . ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#inspiration #life #questions #inspirational

To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy. It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one's ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone. ↗

— Bruce McLaren

#life

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#focus #focusing-illusion #heuristics #importance #priorities

Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves something coming back. People who are possessed are not possessed by something that just comes but instead by something that comes back. Sometimes life comes back. If in me everything crumbled before that power, it is not because that power was itself necessarily an overwhelming one: it in fact had only to come, since it had already become too full-flowing a force to be controlled or contained - when it appeared it overran everything. And then, like after a flood, there floated a wardrobe, a person, a loose window, three suitcases. And that seemed like Hell to me, that destruction of layers and layers of human archaeology. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#hell #life #madness #repression #vengeance

If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#philosophical #philosophy-of-life #philosphy-of-people #life