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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ↗

— Richard Wright

#words #life

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#god #heaven #judgement #talent #life

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. ↗

— Helen Keller

#challenges #enjoy-life #life #risk-taking #life

How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#coma #life #life

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#make-a-difference #purpose #purpose-of-life #life

We could do it, you know." "What?" "Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#love #survival #ya #young-adult #life

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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