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No front porches. My uncle says there used to be front porches. And people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they wanted to talk, rocking, and not talking when they didn't want to talk. Sometimes they just sat there and thought about things, turned things over. My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn't look well. But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn't want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong KIND of social life. People talked too much. And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#life

Life was a revolving mystery, sometimes terrifying, sometimes maddening. But always provocative. Interesting. And although its meaning seemed beyond my grasp, it never seemed meaningless. ↗

— Christina Meldrum

#madapple #meaning #mystery #life

Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices. ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#life

I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#life #life

Today , I saved Brody Carmicheal's life! ↗

— Chanda Hahn

#life

But as long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#life #potential #start #truth #life

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#life #mediocre #life

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in theyear's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#happiness #sadness #life

Peace is something like happiness; you cannot say "I will be happy when..." and you can't say "I will be peaceful when..." Your happiness shouldn't depend on the situation you're in nor on the circumstances that surround you. In the same breath, you cannot wait for everything around you to become peaceful in order for you to say "I am peaceful." In both happiness and peace, there is a heart of strength, determination and steadfastness; a heart that has the power to make things happen. You have to be at peace. You have to be happy. Now. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #peace #the-way-of-happiness #the-way-of-peace

...Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was... ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#confidence #strength #witches #life