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We’re on this planet for too short a time. And at the end of the day, what’s more important? Knowing that a few meaningless figures balanced—or knowing that you were the person you wanted to be? ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#meaning-of-life #inspirational

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#values #life

If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#life #philosophy #life

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written. ↗

— Mark Twain

#inner-life #life

Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on my stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. There's another that reminds me of tagging along with my father on Sunday morning to pick up the New York Times. There's the song that reminds me of using fake ID to get into a nightclub; and the one that brings back my cousin Isobel's sweet sixteen, where I played Seven Minutes in Heaven with a boy whose breath smelled like tomato soup. If you ask me, music is the language of memory. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#music #life

I've never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.' Doolittle shook his head. 'If you participate in this lunacy, y'all will get yourselves killed. Then don't come crying to me.' Now that would be a neat trick. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #kate-daniels #magic-strikes #life

A few Paris blocks away I led a completely normal life with my sister & grandparents. And here I was sword fighting with dead guys. ↗

— Amy Plum

#until-i-die #life

Life sucks. And then you die. [Jacob Black] ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#jacob-black #twilight-saga #life

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional. ↗

— Roger Crawford

#choices #defeat #optimism #life

If I wasn't so phenomenal. I would go back to you. ↗