#ife

Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #brave #confidence #independence #loving-yourself

My life has been nothing but a failure. ↗

— Claude Monet

#failure #life #my life #nothing

I'm not saying my wife's a bad cook, but she uses a smoke alarm as a timer. ↗

— Bob Monkhouse

#bad #cook #i #saying #she

I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#counseled #enjoy #field #i #interviewed

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#life #death

Les expériences dangereuses, le monde les accepte dans le domaine de l’art parce qu’il ne prend pas l’art au sérieux, mais il les condamne dans la vie. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#common-sense #life #opinions #art

Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#life

Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film. ↗

— Ron Moody

#destined #fagin #fate #film #i

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. ↗

— Susanna Moodie

#beams #behind #clouds #dark #encouraging

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life. ↗

— Marguerite Moreau

#ever #every #film #i #keep