#kin

My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#love #life

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again. ↗

— Stephen King

#life

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#life #life

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making. ↗

— Norman Angell

#everywhere #evidence #go #human #i

For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic. ↗

— Harper Lee

#humor #to-kill-a-mockingbird #humor

Dogfish I wanted The past to go away, I wanted To leave it, like another country; I wanted My life to close, and open Like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song Where it falls Down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted To hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, Whoever I was, I was Alive For a little while. …mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, Or mean, For a simple reason. And nobody gets out of it, having to Swim through the fires to stay in This world. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#poetry #life

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#mankind #life

Heaven is always there for us; but this life... this life is a gift to us. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#human #life-and-living #living-life #mankind #life

He shrugged, working to make her understand. “There’s whole YouTube montages playing still shots of my butt to music. I don’t take credit for it. My mom’s been paying a trainer for years. Oh, and my six-pack won a Fan’s Choice Award called the SixPackAttack. Three years running. ↗

— Anne Eliot

#unmaking-hunter-kennedy #music

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking. ↗

— Michael Patrick King

#life #people #walking #life