#ki

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend! ↗

— Edith Wharton

#family #friends #insincerity #kindness #loneliness

Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is-in the blink of an eye, a mother can see the child again as they were when they were born, when they learned how to walk, as they were at any age-at any time, even when the child is fully grown or a parent themselves. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#age

Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's this?" Trying to sound casual, I point at the ad, "What's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince?" "That's the latest book," Garth the other trainee, says. "It came out ages ago." I can't help gasping. "There's a sixth Harry Potter?" "There's a seventh out soon!" Diana steps forward eagerly. "And guess what happens at the end of book six-" "Shh!" exclaims Nicole, the other nurse. "Don't tell her! ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#sophie-kinsella #age

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#american society #aristocratic #breaking #colours #covered

The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

Life is slow dying. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#larkin #life #death

Without desires and dreams, your thoughts do not matter and you can think whatever you want to. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

I have my own theory: ignorance is bliss. The less you know, the more confident you can be in tackling things. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

Every sunrise is priceless and you can experience the richness that life holds only when you live life to the full instead of just being an onlooker. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#catastrophes #deaths #diseases #kill #laugh