#in

Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn the skies and leave it with deep scars and let them be our signatures upon eternity as we go forth! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fire #fireballs #humanism #humanity #inspirational

To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs most when a puree is made of that identity. ↗

— Brian Christian

#human-nature #intelligence

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime ↗

— Samuel Butler

#existence #life #lifetime #living #sensible

Entrei numa livraria. Pus-me a contar os livros que há para ler e os anos que terei de vida. Não chegam! Não duro nem para metade da livraria! Deve haver certamente outras maneiras de uma pessoa se salvar, senão… estou perdido. ↗

— José de Almada Negreiros

#hoarding #life #livrarias #livros #reading

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the page of a book I can be anybody; ↗

— R. Peck

#reading #life

Life is too cruel, if we cease to believe in love, why would we want to live? ↗

— Katerina Petrova

#katherine-pierce #vampire-diaries-show #life

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Civilization, man feels once more happy. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

#happiness #travel #life

Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead. ↗

— Richard Bach

#fascination #life #life

There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#christopher-paolini #eragon #reading #life

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#writing #life