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How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it? ↗

— Simon Cheshire

#life #passion #life

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life #life

If I knew how a lot of my relationships would have turned out, I never would have gotten involved in them... And I would have missed out on some of the best times in my life. ↗

— L.A. Witt

#life

I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of...of what? Light? Life? Cheese? ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#hope #life #loneliness #school #life

I want my last 50 years on this earth to be amazing. Of course, I still want to have 150 years before those last 50 years begin. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#life

Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman". ↗

— George Eliot

#ministry #popularity #life

It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible, far away. But there it lies—not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If we call it by the right word, by the right name, then it comes. This is the essence of magic, which doesn't create but calls. ↗

— Gustav Kafka

#possibilities #life

Life takes constant adjustment and growth. Don't get settled in or it will surprise you and not in a good way. ↗

— Jean Williams

#life

In spite of his mildness and timidity in reproving, every one about him knew that on the exceptional occasions when he chose, he was absolute. He never, indeed, chose to be absolute except on some one else’s behalf. ↗

— George Eliot

#selflessness #life

I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you. ↗

— George Eliot

#poverty #life