#if

As with many life-altering events, an autoimmune illness is almost guaranteed to cause you to re-evaluate your priorities. ↗

— Joan Friedlander

#chronic-illness #life

For every moment of truth, there's confusion in life ↗

— Ronnie James Dio

#life

You eat shit most your life, work, sweat, and bleed for anything you could get the rest of it, and you know sweet when you taste it. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#life

Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#decisions #future #journey #life #mistakes

Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid. ↗

— Su-Mari Diedericks

#truth-of-life #unpopular #unwanted #life

It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#high-school #life

Because personally I think mattering is a piss-poor idea. I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that’s when you get shot down. The bigger a deal you are, the worse your life is. ↗

— John Green

#recognition #life

Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#life

Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#being-yourself #life #life

He remembered the darkness and despair she'd suffered during her long years as a prisoner, but he also recalled the deep, unquenchable joy she took from the world around her; and he knew that given the choice, Wilamena would suffer all she had and more rather than sacrifice one day of being alive. It was just as his father had said. She chose life, all of it. ↗

— John Stephens

#pain #sacrifice #the-fire-chronicle #life