#hi

Stand up! Don't ever give up on this bitchy life. Feel afraid is okay, but don't avoid competition. You've done that thing even since you're a sperm. You accept this and you are the surviving winner. ↗

— Toba Beta

#rise #shine #survive #life

I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head. You just think that things will stay the way they are. You never look up, in a moment that feels like every other moment in your life, and think, "Soon this will be over". But I understand more now. About the way life works. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#hold-still #life #people #friendship

... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back. ↗

— Ki Longfellow

#divine-consciousness #divinity #life #philosophy #life

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life #terry-pratchett #tiffany-aching #truth #witches

To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it. ↗

— David Gerrold

#the-martian-child #writers #writing #writing-life #life

Call no man happy until he is dead. ↗

— Solon

#happiness #history #philosophy #the-good-life #life

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#life #life

If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#humour #philosophical #poetry-quotes #life

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#possessions #readers #reading #things #life

I could think of worse ways of going than at the poker table. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#going #i #poker #table #than