#ife

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. ↗

— George Eliot

#come #golden #gone #know #life

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#i #life #measured #my life #out

I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored. ↗

— Kim Elizabeth

#am #appreciate #appreciative #attention #career

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#individual #lessons #life #load #our

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#chance #diana #expressing #gratitude #grief

What my home life is like now is great. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#home #home life #life #like #now

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#book #emotional #feel #given #i

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#crisis #cruise #i #just #life crisis

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton) ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#others #philosophy #self-awareness #susan-barton #life

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#frailty #immortality #life #mortality #shortness-of-life