#if

We’re all broken. We all have cracks. It’s not about making it through life in one piece it’s about narrowing the gap between the fissures so we don’t shatter.” Ted Basel to Jo Nehr in my next "Surrender" story ↗

— Riley Murphy

#love #surrender #life

Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity. ↗

— Tiziano Terzani

#traveling #watchfulness #life

Fear about what, exactly?' 'Everything,' I said. 'But mostly just the realization that all it takes is one moment for your entire world to turn upside down. One wrong decision, and it's over. ↗

— Kristina McBride

#life #life

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame. ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#happiness-choices #happiness-life #positive-mindset #life

Women already come equipped with a core of steel fiber strength, depths of resolve a man cannot comprehend. It’s not the dynamic strength men have, all power and show. It’s a strength of endurance, fortitude. It is the strength that allows women to conceive life and to carry that life until the day it can stand on its own. ↗

— James R. Tuck

#woman #life

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W. ↗

— Bill W.

#habit #honesty #patience #perseverance #self-examination

As long as you're better at it than skating...," Anna said and stood up too. She wanted to say more, but that wasn't possible because he was kissing her. Reasonable Anna wanted to draw back the danger of touch. But unreasonable Anna welcomed the kiss like happiness. Maybe, she thought, it's better to take these moments when you get them - there might not be too many in life. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#anna-and-abel #anna-leemann #kissing #life

Ever since the day of the mistake with my Match. I've never known which life is my true one. Even with the reassurances of the Offical that day in the greenspace, I think a part of me hasn't felt at peace. It was as though I saw for the first time that life could branch into different paths, take different directions. ↗

— Ally Condie

#directions #peace #life

Mortality is one of the greatest gifts ever bestowed. After a long and fruitful life, we are able to rest. ↗

— Nancy Straight

#life

Passion can’t sustain itself forever. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#passion #life