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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being judged not to have lived. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#life

All seasons have something to offer ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#seasons #life

I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me. ↗

— Heather King

#life

Wilderness to the people pf America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium. ↗

— Sigurd F. Olson

#wilderness #life

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales. ↗

— Jill Paton Walsh

#stepchildren #wicked #life

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture. ↗

— Inga Muscio

#society #wisdom #life

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life ↗

— William H. Gass

#life

The sea will wash away our footprints but not the fact we made them. ↗

— Marty Rubin

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Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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I don't believe that aliens exist, but I do believe that any new facts can strengthen foundation of my belief. ↗

— Toba Beta

#belief #believe #facts #foundation #life