#if

At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#life-lessons #responsibility #anger

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing. ↗

— Richard Roxburgh

#brutally #cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #doing

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#idealistic #life #ones #poetry #treated

A thousand years from now nobody is going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now and who knows how far into the future that will go. If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived. ↗

— Jackson Burnett

#cynicism #determination #fate #future #life-and-living

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life. ↗

— Darrell Royal

#got #just #life #names #only

Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor. ↗

— Ed Royce

#al #because #cut #difficult #difficult time

Without desire, one is a walking cadaver. ↗

— Karldon Okruta

#humour #inspirational-attitude #wake-up-call #attitude

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. ↗

— Michael Burke

#instincts #life #life

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning. ↗

— Josiah Royce

#best #fragment #glimpse #hint #individual

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best. ↗

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

#achievement #after #afterglow #best #come