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It would mark the end of a year that he might look back on as hands, a pivot between two lines. Or not: maybe enough time, would pass that eventually he would look back on his life, all of it, as a series of events both logical and continuous. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#perspective #time #life

there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#life #life

t Leven is hard voor mensen als wij,' zei mevrouw Gustavson, die iets bedacht had om te zeggen. 'Dat kan wel wezen,' zei ik tegen mevrouw Gustavson, 'maar ik ben harder. ↗

— Floortje Zwigtman

#life

...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#charlotte-bronte #hope #life

Make mistakes -- just don't keep making the same goddamn ones. ↗

— Sally Koslow

#life

He was too old to be working, too young to be dead and too broke to do anything else. Life's a bitch, sometimes... ↗

— Chris Culver

#life

thousands of memories, billions of people' but only one life ↗

— Priya Saini

#life

My life would be sour grapes and ashes without you ↗

— Daisy Ashford

#life

Our legacy is really the lives we touch,the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan--if even for a moment--and getting them to think, rage, cry, laugh, argue...walk around the block, dazed...More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you here to deliver. ↗

— Carrie Louise Hamilton

#inspirational

Maybe thinking you're supposed to 'have a life' is a stupid way of buying into an untenable 1950s narrative of what life *supposed* to be. How do we know that all of these people with 'no lives' aren't really on the new frontier of human sentience and preceptions? ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#life