#i

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. ↗

— George A. Moore

#home #man #needs #over #returns

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#life

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #life

I held this girl in my arms She wrapped her tiny fingers around mine. It was then that I realized. She was the fusion. The glue. The cement that bound all my pieces together. The piece that seals my puzzle. The piece that completes my life. The element that makes me who I am. Who I was. Who I'll one day be. You, baby girl. You're my final piece. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#layken-cooper #my-final-piece #slam-poetry #will-cooper #life

I’m starting to get used to this feeling of not caring about anything. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#don-t-care #feeling #j-a-redmerski #life #the-edge-of-never

We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are. ↗

— Anthony Marra

#existance #humanity #life #self #wolves

I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would always have my back. It made me feel giant. I raced back down the concrete ramp, faster than I ever had before, so fast I should have fallen, but I didn't fall, because Mom was in the world. ↗

— Maria Semple

#life

The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#tuesdays-with-morrie #life

Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other - activity in rest and rest in activity - is the ultimate freedom. ↗

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#rest #freedom

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