#if

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten. ↗

— André Breton

#surrealism #life

I think it's possible to realize you love someone as deeply as you know how to love and not end up spending the rest of your life with him. ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#love #miller #life

For one day there will be nothing left, yet we will have something. -me- I tried to wait for my life to begin. Something has to happen. Like an amazing boy. I know he's out there. I just have to find him. ↗

— Susane Colasanti

#life

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#regret #life

There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#endings #life

Life is more fun if you play games. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#fun #games #life #play #life

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want ↗

— Richard Yates

#life

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#second-chances #life

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#characters #life #life

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#dog #love #relationship #romance #truth