#in

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#reading #life

She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#love #life

A heart has problems which mind cannot understand. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life #mind #problems #life

You see it, don't you, James? Without Tessa there is nothing for me--no joy, no light, no life. If you loved me, you would let me have her. You can't love her as I do. No one could. If you are truly my brother, you would do this for me. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem #tessa #the-infernal-devices #will #life

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#self-expression #uniqueness #life

These are the days that must happen to you. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#live-life #life

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#life

[G]iving yourself some loving attention is not selfish. It is sensible. If you feel loved and cherished--even if it is only by yourself--then you will have more love to give to others, too. (83) ↗

— Penelope Quest

#giving #love #self-loving #selfishness #life

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#pain #world #life

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#life #simile #life