#i

Tragedy will either destroy you or turn your life around. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#inspirational

Succede, a volte, di provare una grande attrazione per qualcuno che poco ha a che fare con i nostri valori, le nostre abitudini, le nostre passioni. Che sia chimica, follia, istinto animale poco importa. Ciò che importa è che spesso, invece di dare alle cose il proprio nome, ci si affanna a interpretarle nel modo più indolore possibile, per non mettere in discussione la propria dignità, per tener fede a dogmi e precetti dai quali ci si sta svincolando, senza volerlo ammettere. (…) Si forniscono alibi, giustificazioni, si cercano attinenze che non esistono ma alle quali ci si aggrappa come polpastrelli in una scalata che renderà difficile sgretolare poi la roccia, pena il precipizio. ↗

— Cristina Obber

#novel #life

Are you doing life or are you living? ↗

— Dale Forehand

#doing #life #living #life

plant the seed and watch it grow... ↗

— George Davies

#life

Nemoj budit odsanjane snove, nek miruje ono čega ne bi. Odveć rano zamoren životom,samo čemer osjećam u sebi. ↗

— Sergei Yesenin

#russian #sadness #sergej-jesenjin #life

Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#meaning-of-life #sofa #life

We’re actors in our own lives, pretending to be who we want people to think we are. ↗

— Simone Elkeles Perfect Chemistry

#life

You see? I don’t know what ‘mature’ means, either, and you could talk all night and I still wouldn’t know. It’s all just words to me, Frank. I watch you talking and I think: Isn’t that amazing? He really does think that way; these words really do mean something to him. Sometimes it seems I’ve been watching people talk and thinking that all my life. And maybe it means there’s something awful the matter with me, but it’s true. ↗

— Richard Yates

#life

The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things. ↗

— Homer

#greek-gods #life-lessons #the-odyssey #life

What do you know of sacrifice? Need I tell you of York's dead . . . of Sandal Castle? My brother did survive the battle, his first. He was seventeen and he entreated them to spare his life. They cut his throat. Their heads were then impaled on York's Micklegate Bar to please the House of Lancaster, to please a harlot and a madman. She had my father's head crowned with straw and she left a spike between the two. . . . That one, she said, was for York's other son. ↗

— Sharon Kay Penman

#life