#if

The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. ↗

— George Eliot

#conviction #life

القائد والمطر كلاهما يأتيان بعد عاصفة وغبار ↗

— ياسر حارب

#life

ديكتاتورية النفس أقسى من ديكتاتورية الحكومة .. حرر نفسك قبل أن تُحرر شعبك ↗

— ياسر حارب

#life

She had the feeling, the tingling, lingering sense that something or someone life altering was just over the horizon. She had no idea what it was, but she wanted to rush headlong to bring it to her. ↗

— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

#growing-up #hurry #life

There should have been a dark whisper in the wind. Or maybe a deep chill in the bone. Something. An ethereal song only Elizabeth or I could hear. A tightness in the air. Some textbook premonition. There are misfortunes we almost expect in life—what happened to my parents, for example—and then there are other dark moments, moments of sudden violence that alter everything. There was my life before the tragedy. There is my life now. The two have very little in common. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#life

Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#writers-on-writing #life

You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#life #life

Life is full of good-byes...Dont expect to turn around once you leave I wont be around. ↗

— Bowman

#life

If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered. ↗

— Louise Erdrich

#story #life

Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead. ↗

— Ajahn Chah

#life