#heart

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. ↗

— Charles Yu

#life #storytelling #truth #writing #life

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway. ↗

— Albert Camus

#heartbreak #life #love #relationships #sadness

We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have. ↗

— James R. Ball

#deserve #heart #life #life

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#knife #life #love #life

Life surprises at every turn But it just wants you to learn You can't dictate how it should play For it will still take you by sway And when it does, learn to just be For it can see what you can't see Find your happiness wherever you are Stuck in muck but gaze at the stars ↗

— Laxmi Hichkad

#life

Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. ↗

— Gao Xinjian

#writing-from-the-heart #writing-life #life

Life doesn’t just happen to you. You react to it, and you are not forced to react the way you do. Your heart determines your reactions. ↗

— Justin Holcomb

#life-and-living #life

When we are in love, we are convinced nobody else will do. But as time goes, others do do, and often do do, much much better. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#breakups #heartbreak #in-love #jamie-weise #love

Sometimes, on our way through the world, we meet someone who touches our heart in a way others don't. ↗