#ife

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#life #longing #poetry #pride #sense-of-wonder

Fox was here first, and his brother was the wolf. Fox said, people will live forever. If they die they will not die for long. Wolf said, no, people will die, people must die, all things that live must die, or they will spread and cover the world, and eat all the salmon and the caribou and the buffalo, eat all the squash and all the corn. Now one day Wolf died, and he said to the fox, quick, bring me back to life. And Fox said, No, the dead must stay dead. You convinced me. And he wept as he said this. But he said it, and it was final. Now Wolf rules the world of the dead and Fox lives always under the sun and the moon, and he still mourns his brother. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#life

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#solitude #the-house-of-mirth #life

The busyness of your life leaves little room for the source of your life. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#life

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being judged not to have lived. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#life

All seasons have something to offer ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#seasons #life

I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me. ↗

— Heather King

#life

Wilderness to the people pf America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium. ↗

— Sigurd F. Olson

#wilderness #life

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales. ↗

— Jill Paton Walsh

#stepchildren #wicked #life

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture. ↗

— Inga Muscio

#society #wisdom #life