#ife

the sight of me is good for sore eyes ↗

— Charles Dickens

#self-confidence #life

Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #life

being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous. ↗

— Siddhartha Choudhary

#life-lessons #life

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going? ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#time #life

A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

#life

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are. ↗

— David Levithan

#every-day #life

Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don't intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or no intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of control. ...Sometimes things take on a life of their own. You become powerless. There is nothing you can do to stop certain things from happening. ↗

— Dana Reinhardt

#life #pain #truth #life

Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#lies #life #resources #work #life

Who are we without our memories? ↗

— Marta Acosta

#la-vie #life #memories #truth #life

Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic. ↗

— Michael Ayrton

#vanity #life