#if

There was something better in life than this rub­bish, if only he could get to it—love—nobility—big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . . ↗

— E.M. Forster

#love #life

I will love you all the days of my life and beyond. ↗

— Amanda Quick

#life

For seven men she gave her life. For one good man she was his wife. Beneath the ice by Snow White Falls, there lies the fairest of them all. ↗

— Kathryn Wesley

#life

الفكر لا يواجَه إلا بالفكر والقلم الذي يواجه بالحديد يصبح قلم رصاص ↗

— ياسر حارب

#life

Sweet talk's like salt. You can add some later, if need be, but if you pour out too much, you can't sift it out again. ↗

— Marcia Gruver

#life

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling ↗

— Linus Pauling

#linus-pauling #the-artist-s-way #life

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent. ↗

— Peter Singer

#philosophy #reason #suffering #life

How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts? ↗

— George Eliot

#pride #self-centeredness #life

For a long time," he said at last, "when I was small, I pretended to myself that I was the bastard of some great man. All orphans do this, I think," he added dispassionately."It makes life easier to bear, to pretend that it will not always be as it is, that someone will come and restore you to your rightful place in the world." He shrugged. "Then I grew older, and knew that this was not true. No one would come to rescue me. But then-" he turned his head and gave Jamie a smile of surpassing sweetness. "Then I grew older still, and discovered that after all, it was true. I am the son of a great man." The hook touched Jamie's hand, hard and capable. "I wish for nothing more. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#jamie-fraser #life

semua orang pada setiap masa, mencari sesuatu yang hilang dalam hidup mereka. tidak kira sama ada sesuatu yang hilang itu adalah orang yang mereka sayang atau hati yang telah kosong dan dipenuhi kegelisahan...mereka akan terus mencarinya. mencari supaya mereka dapat jadi gembira semula. dapat merasa bahagia semula -Ashraf ↗

— John Norafizan

#life