#ife

When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#good #goodness #holiness #holy #life

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#stars #business

It was all very strange, Mr. Gray thought, as he wiped the coffee canister clean with a sponge. Very, very mysterious. You were born; you lived a whole life; and at the end, you wound up in a coffee canister. "Ah, well," he said out loud quietly. "That's just the way things are. Life's a funny business." Death, he supposed, was the punch line. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#funny-business #life #business

PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure.. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence. ↗

— John Keats

#life

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda ↗

— Eva Ibbotson

#life

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#life #nostalgia #life

My life is now divided into two periods: With June and After June. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of it. ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#loss #life

LOVE, LIKE RAIN, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a certain joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries from the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life

Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life. ↗

— Robert Moses

#life