#if

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#letting-go #life #life-lessons #love #memories

Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life #death

You know that Kate called Walter a heartless bastard?" "And an asshole. I am quite proud. ↗

— Aimee Carter

#husband-and-wife #humor

Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#life

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#life #life

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life #memories #humor

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging. ↗

— Ernst Cassirer

#perspective #life

I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#life #lost #road #the-edge-of-never #travel

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#wit #life

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shut up, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#knife-of-never-letting-go #manchee #todd #humor