#jo

There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.” “And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick. “Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #life #life

Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#johnny-depp #life #shit #life

Do anything, but let it produce joy. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#enjoy-life #live-life #life

All salvation is temporary,' Augustus shot back. 'I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.' ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #life

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#acted #awoke #behold #dreamt #i

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ↗

— Albert Camus

#connection #look-up-and-enjoy-life #perspective #relationship #relax

With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#life

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#life #universe #life

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#fiction-writing #human-nature #journey #life-lessons #truth

Do what makes you happy, be with who makes you smile, laugh as much as you breathe, and love as long as you live. ↗

— Rachel Ann Nunes

#life