#id

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#application #clever #consider #constant #hell

I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#ecstasy #individuality #joy-of-life #life

You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#teen-idol #thatsaquote #trina #life

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#life

Identity was partly heritage, partly upbringing, but mostly the choices you make in life. ~ Bran ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#heritage #identity #upbringing #life

All that is left to bring you pain, are the memories. If you face those, you’ll be free. You can’t spend the rest of your life hiding from yourself; always afraid that your memories will incapacitate you, and they will if you continue to bury them. ↗

— J.D. Stroube

#bury #free #hide #incapacitate #memories

I can’t tell you. I can’t tell you of all people. Throughout my life you were the one person I could turn to. The one person I could always count on to understand. And now that I’ve lost you, I’ve lost everything. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#life

Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#koontz #midnight #possibilities #stars #life

You need to take pride in what God has given you. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#pride #life

Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#midnighters #scott-la #scott-westerfeld #life