#if

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze. ↗

— John Green

#suffering #life

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#begin #birth #body #build #connected

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#quiet #silence #tranquility #life

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#because #else #even #fantasy #fiction

I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment. ↗

— Jessica Hahn

#i #kind #life #live #long

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family. ↗

— Martha Griffiths

#aid #alike #become #chance #fact

some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. ↗

— Vladimir Horowitz

#dynamics #i #make #me #mistake

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #life-and-death #death

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#admire #aesthetic #approval #complete #different