#iv

Being successful and fulfilling your lifes purpose are not at all the same thing; You can reach all your personal goals, become a raving success by the worlds standard and still miss your purpose in this life. ↗

— Rick Warren

#life

As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#love-triangle #mixed-emotions #life

People are secretive when they have secrets. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#people #secretive #secrets #life

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. ↗

— Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

#open #open-mindedness #receptiveness #life

The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#perspective #social-norms #society #life

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#course #distrust #i #improve #lives

If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#life

We shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#living #life

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#science #the-universe #life

You can play it safe, and I wouldn't blame you for it. You can continue as you've been doing, and you'll survive, but is that what you want? Is that enough? ↗

— J.M. Darhower

#life-questions #safe #sempre #survive #life