#ife

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#beliefs #come #creator #doing #down

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grow sarcastic. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#love #sacrasm #life

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#self-image #self-improvement #life

I want to share my life with you, to be monogamous with you, and my past is in the past. I wish there was some way I could prove it to you, once and for all. I do have a sordid past, but I’ve never lied to any of the women I’ve been with, and I’ve never promised to anyone the things I promise to you. ↗

— R.K. Lilley

#james-cavendish #love #life

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#i #ideal #life #memory #my life

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#gravitate #had #i #i think #life

Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury. ↗

— Jim Beaver

#injury #life #forgiveness

So we forgive each other?" The crooked smile climbs up one more time. "Again?" And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say. "Always," I say to him. "Every time. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#life #romance #forgiveness

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?' ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#big #feel #great #having #i

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#life #protection #art