#fe

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#struggle #life

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#life #life

If something doesn't work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don't just throw it away. Everything can't be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give something the little nudge it needs. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#life

I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose! ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#crowd #individuality #life #life

Oh please," said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms. "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do you?" "I've used it against him," Harry said quietly. "It saved my life last June. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#life

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#life

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#highs-lows #life #experience

Rise to the occassion which is life! ↗

— Virginia Euwer Wolff

#life #inspirational

To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then to put it away. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#peace #life