#ife

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. ↗

— Charles Ives

#art #comes #directly #exclusive #experience

All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right. ↗

— Joseph Jackson

#done #good #his #i #kid

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life. ↗

— Randall Jarrell

#entertain #home #idea #life #live

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. ↗

— Michael Johnson

#best #brief #compared #given #hard

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education. ↗

— John H. Johnson

#believed #education #faith #great #great faith

Pillow talk. It's how you know, it's how you tell, that something different, something special is happening: that this might even be the most important night of your life. Some day -some night- I hope you both may know it, with whoever it may be: the wish, stealing up on you, not to just merge bodies, but all you have, all your years, all your memories up to that point. And why should you wish to do that, if you haven't already guessed that your future too, will be shared? ↗

— Graham Swift

#life

On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#life

I haven't a clue if there is life on other planets but I'd be charmed if we found a unicellular organism on Mars. It would change our whole concept of life on Earth. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#charmed #clue #concept #earth #found

I had a dream about you. We were on a bench next to the ocean eating melted chocolate out the belly of a beached whale. I said, “Isn’t this romantic?” and you either silently burped or the stench of decomposition wafted up to my nose, but either way I got the sense that either of those scents couldn’t have been a more appropriate reply. 
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— Dora J. Arod

#dreams #funny #humor #life #relationships

Life is pain and everyone dies, but true love lives forever. ↗

— J.T. Geissinger

#love #sad-but-true #true-love #life