#fe

There is no man...however wise, who has not at some period in his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man... ↗

— Marcel Proust

#youth #life

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#path #life

Life isn't just to be endured, it's to be enjoyed. ↗

— Gordon B.Hinckley

#life

We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#humans #life #life

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#belief #life #life

And suddenly I got what the big deal was about kissing. How someone could suck on your bottom lip and make you come completely undone. That someone stroking the hair back from your face could make you swoon and someone sliding his hands underneath your top could make you feel wanted for the first time in your life. ↗

— Sarra Manning

#life

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#life

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

There was no answer, except the general answer life gives to all the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: one must live for the needs of the day, in other words, become oblivious. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #oblivious #life

I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber we can do no wrong and are unconscious of life, the greatest criminal and most self- absorbed egotist are holy, by a natural magic, as long as they're sleeping. For me there's no discernible difference between killing a child and killing a sleeping man. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#sleep #life