#ife

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#give #life #them #thing #things

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#breathe #desires #goals #inspirational #leader

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#demand #life #money #require #women

Don't give up! It's not over. The universe is balanced. Every set-back bears with it the seeds of a come-back. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #motivational #success #universe #experience

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#experience #life #experience

None meet life honestly and few heroically. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#heroically #honestly #life #meet #none

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles. ↗

— Thomas Sprat

#great #life #married #married life #negligence

And they will pause just for an instant, and give a sigh to me, and think, "Poor girl!" believing they do great justice to my memory by this. But they will never, never realize that it was my single opportunity of existence, as well as of doing my duty, which they are regarding; they will not feel that what to them is but a thought, easily held in those two words of pity, "Poor girl!" was a whole life to me, as full of hours, minutes, and peculiar minutes, of hopes and dreads, smiles, whisperings, tears, as theirs: that it was my world, what is to them their world, and that in that life of mine, however much I cared for them, only as the thought I seem to them to be. Nobody can enter into another's nature truly, that's what is so grievous. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#grieving #life #mourning #death

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#life-and-death #realization #death

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#exist #futility #irrational #life #most