#han

The rider evolved to serve to the elephant. ↗

— Jonathan Haidt

#haidt #happiness #jon #jonathan #life

I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like this: I’m lonely. But when I left that girl in the window I was sure I’d never felt more godforsaken in my life. There’s a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I’m guessing that once you’ve discovered this distinction you can’t go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions. ↗

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

#life #tiffanie-debartolo #life

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#game #god #hands #life #life

Every man lives by exchanging. ↗

— Adam Smith

#exchange #how-life-works #trade #life

I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it. ↗

— Jessie Jones

#life #life

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way. ↗

— David Mitchell

#fate #life #life

But I don't believe coincidences are chance events. I think they're the times we happen to see the mysterious pattern connecting everything. ↗

— Julie Gittus

#coincidences #life #life

But I also slaughtered you real mother and father. In a moment of mad rage, I took their lives and left you an orphan. If you choose to take my life as a payment for theirs, you will be within your rights and no vampire will hold it against you. Pass judgment on me, Gavner Purl, and let your hand rise or fall as destiny decides it must." -Larten Crepsley ↗

— Darren Shan

#larten-crepsely #palace-of-the-damned #vampires #life

Aaron, in order to die you have to live a little first. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#life-lessons #taking-chances #life

Is the mask magic?" he demanded with sudden, passionate interest. "Yes." I bowed my head, so that our eyes no longer met. "I made it magic to keep you safe. The mask is your friend, Erik. As long as you wear it, no mirror can ever show you the face again." He was silent then and when I showed him the new mask he accepted it without question and put it on hastily with his clumsy, bandaged fingers. But when I stood up to go, he reacted with panic and clutched at my grown. "Don't go! Don't leave me here in the dark." "You are not in the dark," I said patiently. "Look, I have left the candle ..." But I knew, as I looked at him, that it would have made no difference if I had left him fifty candles. The darkness he feared was in his own mind and there was no light in the universe powerful enough to take that darkness from him. With a sigh of resignation I sat back on the bed and began to sing softly; and before I had finished the first verse, he was asleep. The bandages on his hands and wrists showed white and eerie in the candle-light, as I eased my skirts from his grasp. I knew that Marie was right. Physically and mentally, I had scarred him for life. ↗

— Susan Kay

#romance #life