#flo

The river is everywhere. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life #omnipresence #river #life

Why am I always looking at life through a window? ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#flowers-for-algernon #life

She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might have been. ↗

— Kimberley Freeman

#life

My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#law #move #parents #sixty #turned

It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone. ↗

— Deng Ming-Dao

#go-with-the-flow #taoism #life

It had not seemed difficult, on a small income, to know what was right to do....Now, with so much, it was daily a decision: what was necessary, what was frivolous...It was so much gray--so little black and white; for a year she'd spent more of her time questioning herself and how she lived in Truth than she had done altogether in her life. ↗

— Laura Kinsale

#life

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#always #choose #into #keep #life

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”) ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#flower #life #lilac #life

We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#like-the-flowing-river #paulo-coelho #life

You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#love