#is

And it would show me, once again, that one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#life #opportunities #risks #death

To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247) ↗

— Gregory Bassham

#harry-potter #life #living-life #philosophy #wisdom

The humble listen to their brothers and sisters because they assume they have something to learn. They are open to correction, and they become wiser through it. ↗

— Thomas Dubay

#listening #humility

Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation. (161) ↗

— David Wroblewski

#grief #optimism #death

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life [Angus Tuck] ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

#missed-chances #death

Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#death #maddox #punishment #death

To experience peace ~ stop disturbing it! ↗

— Julia Heywood

#spiritual-quotes #spiritual-wisdom #experience

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why. ↗

— Glen Cook

#death #life #wisdom #death

I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up. ↗

— Celia Rivenbark

#humor #death

Willow sees her before any of the others. A walking skeleton, the victim of some terrible wasting disease, like something out of the history books, a death camp survivor. It takes Willow a moment to realize that the girl is none of those things. She's just a girl, a girl like Willow, who's chosen to inflict terrible pain on herself. Only this girl's weapon isn't a razor, it's starvation. ↗

— Julia Hoban

#eating-disorder #self-harm #self-injury #si #starvation