#ife

Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspiration #life #peace #solitude #death

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ↗

— Jean Paul

#clearer #escaped #hourglass #life #more

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old man I met near the place. ↗

— Christopher Gist

#among #away #came #family #five

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. ↗

— Anatole France

#eternal #know #life #short #short life

The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#control #life #miserable #motivational #people

When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#buddhist #catholicism #closer #committed #disillusioned

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#anybody #between #contemplate #could #difference

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#hearing #i #life #music #my life

I have a fantastic wife, and not only in terms of external beauty. Her priority and mine is our children. That is our choice. ↗

— Luis Figo

#children #choice #external #fantastic #her