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I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy, and I've learned that not everyone can say that about his life. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#stability #life

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#companionship #life

You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#regret #life

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind ↗

— Andy Andrews

#life

My heart hurts that means I’m alive. ↗

— Kazuya Minekura

#life #pain #life

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dare not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#philosophical #life

Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#xv #life

If you would create something, you must be something. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#life

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. ↗

— Eve Ensler

#life

Wherever you are, however you got there, if it's good, you're meant to be there either because you earned it or life led you there and you were smart enough to hold on. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#wisdom #life