#ife

There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.” “And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick. “Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #life #life

And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#healing #life

Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger. ↗

— Linda Howard

#sobriquet #life

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#self-actualization #self-image #life

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#live #sleep #tomorrow #life

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#life

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#life

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar ↗

— Jim Butcher

#life #metaphor #zen #humor

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics. ↗

— William Goldman

#humor #life #romantics #writing #humor

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#authenticity #gratitude #hard-work #inspirational #life