#ife

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that. ↗

— Alan Moore

#life #under-the-hood #life

Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where—' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. '—so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation. 'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#humor #life #humor

Running with a drowsy child of Hades was more like doing a 3 -legged race with a life size rag doll. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#nico #percy-jackson #life

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ↗

— John von Neumann

#math #maths #life

Now you will feel no rain, For each of you will be shelter to the other. Now you will feel no cold, For each of you will be warmth to the other. Now there is no more loneliness for you. For each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two bodies, But there is only one life before you. ↗

— R.K. Lilley

#life

I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #message-in-a-bottle #nicholas-sparks #life

Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions. ↗

— Sara Nelson

#reading #life

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. ↗

— Jane Austen

#memory #pain #pleasure #life

Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it? ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#life

Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That’s what makes us humans. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#masashi-kishimoto #naruto #life