#iving

And the uniqueness of every moment seeks the path from pain to a pearl. ↗

— Lina Kostenko

#life-and-living #inspirational

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed. ↗

— Sandro Veronesi

#life-and-living #truth #inspirational

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. [Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#creation #creative-process #driving-forces #hardship #pain

But it would be like going to Heaven and not finding any of your friends there. Her life would go all beatific and empty in the eyes. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#home #life #living #where-you-live #home

Feelings of any kind are not known to the walking dead. Every form of psychological warfare, from attempts at enraging the undead to provoking pity have all met with disaster. Joy, sadness, confidence, anxiety, love, hatred, fear—all of these feelings and thousands more that make up the human “heart” are as useless to the living dead as the organ of the same name. Who knows if this is humanity’s greatest weakness or strength? The debate continues, and probably will forever. ↗

— Max Brooks

#human #living-dead #zombie #love

Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another. ↗

— Don Polson

#helping #life #living #loving #love

The living room seemed to be where no living ever actually occurred. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#love

You can do what you want. You can fly as far as you want, be as determined as you want, but sooner or later you have to ask yourself, or the person with you, ‘will there be everything we have hoped for?’ When you realise there’s so little hope left, it is like seeing an entire shadow all over the world. ↗

— Kyra Gregory

#inspirational #life-lessons #living #love #optimism

To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it…it’s over. It can hurt you no more. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#letting-go-of-the-past #living-in-the-moment #living-in-the-past #living-in-the-present #moving-on

If you’ve been there, done that, gotten the t-shirt, isn’t it time to move on to a new destination? Don’t waste a lot of time stressing the “could have’s” – because if it should have, it would have! ↗

— Mandy Hale

#destination #journey-of-life #letting-go #letting-go-of-the-past #living-in-the-moment