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We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#hesitation #hope #life #tragedy #life

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire) ↗

— Nora Roberts

#marriage #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

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#life #longer #more #shelf #shelf life

Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like. ↗

— Will Rogers

#money #people #pride #will-rogers #life

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#feeling #love #message-in-a-bottle #nicholas-sparks #regret

You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine. ↗

— Marie Lu

#june #legend #life

There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists. ↗

— Hugo Pratt

#been #duty #feel #given #hand

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#education #education

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#judgement #life #preparation #religion #life