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There's something sad about people going to bed. You can see they don't give a damn whether they're getting what they want out of life or not, you can see they don't even try to understand what we're here for. They just don't care. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

#life

There comes a moment in your life when you realize that no matter how hard you try, you're never going to be fluent in Spanish. Or go on that African safari you've read about since you were a kid. Or be as excited as you used to be about catching fireflies. I keep trying to find my answer to life - and it gets more elusive the older I get. ↗

— Kim Gruenenfelder

#getting-older #life-goals #p #life

Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn’t I wish you hadn’t I wish you’d left me alone. ↗

— Sarah Kane

#life

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#life

For however inhospitable the wind, from this vantage point Manhattan was simply so improbable, so wonderful, so obviously full of promise - that you wanted to approach it for the rest of your life without ever quite arriving. ↗

— Amor Towles

#life

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing. ↗

— Matthew Kelly

#individualism #life #p #life

Bryn looked from Halt to Horace and back again. He saw no pity in either face. "I don't want to," he said in a very small voice. Horace found it hard to reconcile this cringing figure with the sneering bully who had been making his life hell for the past few months. Halt appeared to consider Bryn's statement. "We'll note your protest," he said cheerfully. "Now continue, please. ↗

— John Flanagan

#life

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs. ↗

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#p #life

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#p #life

...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.) ↗

— George Sand

#life