#in

- Вот она, истина. Не в серпе и молоте. Не в звездах и полосах. Не в распятии. Не в солнце. Не в золоте. Не в инь и ян. В улыбке. ↗

— John Fowles

#smile #life

Don't become a puppet to other peoples desires, live and create your life as you intend it to be. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#desires #intend #life #live #puppet

You can not choose your calling. Your calling chooses you. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life-missions #life-purpose #life

Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that. ↗

— V.C. Andrews

#life

Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace…. ↗

— James A. Murphy

#determination #peace #purpose #life

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#inferiority #self-esteem #superiority #truth #truth-telling

Success, for most people, requires unlearning as much as learning. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#success #life

I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm doing, I'll tell her and everyone else that I know: t hey are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing. ↗

— Ally Condie

#real-life #samples #life

A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#life

This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#loneliness #life