#ira

Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy. ↗

— Peter Deunov

#direction #empowerment #happy #inspirational #lost

I do not care about happiness simply because I believe that joy is something worth fighting for. ↗

— Criss Jami

#brighter #fighting #fighting-battles #greater #greater-glory

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. ↗

— Mark Twain

#love #marriage #inspirational

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#love #inspirational

You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo ↗

— Mario Puzo

#inspirational

... I'll always have something that not even time can take away. Pain. ...because when I've forgotten everything else, I'll feel that ache... that tightness in my throat... that heaviness in my chest... and know that I loved a woman once and she loved me back. It's proof that I existed and so did she. ↗

— Samantha Sotto

#life #love #inspirational

I just want to let you know that I love you all. Even those of you that I don't like; that's you Beryl. ↗

— Derek Landy

#inspirational

Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#inspirational #life #mind #inspirational

It's like when you take a trip with someone you don't know very well. Sometimes, you can get very close very quickly, but then after the trip is over, you realize all that was a false sort of closeness. An intimacy based on the trip more than the travelers. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#inspirational #inspirational

Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say 'The whole world is mine.' "But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson." What lesson? I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#inspirational