#he

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. ↗

— Alice Walker

#felt #i #i am #known #never

The most difficult challenge an honest man will ever face is having to choose between duty and love. One creates a man of honorable character; a life worth dying for. The other creates a vulnerable soul that madly yearns for either death or immortality. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#commitment #duty #eena #honor #love

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#dangerous #ear #go #music #other

I am using the word theory as a scientist means it: a set of ideas so well established by observations and physical models that it is essentially indistinguishable from fact. That is different from the colloquial use that means "guess." To a scientist, you can bet your life on a theory. Remember, gravity is "just a theory" too. ↗

— Philip C. Plait

#theory #death

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#hurt #life-lessons #scars #wisdom #wounds

Živi što ljepše, ali tako da te nije stid. I radije pristani da te Bog pita: zašto nisi to učinio? ↗

— Meša Selimović

#living-life #living-life-to-the-fullest #death

Something that is yours forever is never precious ↗

— Chaim Potok

#love #my-name-is-asher-lev #value #life

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#mothers #life

My mother's life was way too heavy for me. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#life