#fe

Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#life-lessons #life

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never. ↗

— Shannon Celebi

#father #fathers #fathers-and-daughters #growing-up #life

She understood that Simon was a disappointed man if he needed, at ths age, to tell her he had pitied her for years. ↗

— Elizabeth Strout

#age

Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. ↗

— Núria Añó

#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older

Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth. ↗

— Bob Marley

#life

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everyhwere. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#relationships #separation #life

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#life

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #inaction #life #molly-carpenter #life

The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#loneliness #sadness #life