#if

The great essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#life #purpose #life

I swear by my life and my love of it that I shall not live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#philosophy #life

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist, hazy and amorous, London was delirious. London squinted as it floated along, milky pink, without caring where it was going. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#delirium #london #love #life

The way through the world Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#life #poetry #spirit #life

This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#relationships #women #life

...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#ilona-andrews #magic-bleeds #life

She had felt a collision with him and known that she had wanted this her whole life: to crash for just one moment into another person at such a velocity as to fuse with him. ↗

— Ali Shaw

#crash #life #love #life

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#sadness #life

You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you're terrified somebody's going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somaliland. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself. ↗

— George Axelrod

#caged-bird #free-spirit #holly-golightly #wild-thing #life

Fights begin and end with handshakes. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#life-lessons #respect #life