#ife

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be... ↗

— John Lennon

#destiny #fate #life #life

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#philosophy #philosophy-of-life #progress #life

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#certainty #life #life

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#love #romance #life

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#living #philosophy #women #life

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#life

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water more fit for gills than lungs; when grief weights you like your own flesh only more of it, an obesity of grief, you think, How can a body withstand this? Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again. ↗

— Ellen Bass

#hope #life #love #life

The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats... ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#life #music #life

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#life

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#defeat #humanity #life #life