#if

My life which I dream will be so beautiful, so poetic, so vast, so filled with love will turn out to be like everybody else's - monotonous, sensible, stupid. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#beauty

…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness… ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life #love #dreams

Every step towards your dream today is a step away from your regret tomorrow. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#goals #inspirational #life #motivational #regret

It would be a lot different for me because there is a lot of information that you need to know about as a player. How pitchers are pitching you, how defenses are playing, certain situations about certain pitchers. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#because #certain #defenses #different #how

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ↗

— Mark Twain

#astonish #gratify #people #rest #right

With six pieces of wood, I’m building a life, and my coffin.
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— Jarod Kintz

#carpentry #coffin #construction #death #life

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#death #hearken #life #music #veronica-roth

There are two paths of which one may choose in the walk of life; one we are born with, and the one we consciously blaze. One is naturally true, while the other is a perceptive illusion. Choose wisely at each fork in the road. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#consciousness #illusions #life #natural #path

Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#afterlife #death #ghost #grief #loss

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#atheism #atheist #christianity #death #god