#iv

If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being always protected made me more fearful, and I would later dip cautiously into the outside world, never allowing myself to be submerged completely, and always jerking back into the familiarity of my own life when my senses were overwhelmed. For years I would stand with a foot in each sphere, drawn to the exotic universe that lay on the other side of the portal, wrenched back by the warnings that sounded like alarm bells in my mind. ↗

— Deborah Feldman

#courage-in-life #fear #fear-of-living #freedom #courage

To live is to be haunted. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#life #live #life

Find the fountain of fuel of life! When you do, then right next to it... you'll see the best engine ever existed. ↗

— Toba Beta

#living-engine #life

Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#free #life-lessons #living #prisoner #reality

He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. ↗

— John Green

#inspirational #life #forgiveness

We let life live us, instead of us living life. ↗

— Helen M. Ryan

#life

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul. ↗

— Joe Biden

#politics #life

There's nothing gay about living life straight ↗

— Paul B. Tripp

#gay-and-lesbian #memoir #military #reparative-therapy #life

There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it. ↗