#l

Its sound in her soul was a distant fast train. Love did not bring happiness, it did not last, and it ended in pain. She did not want to believe this, and she was not certain that she did; perhaps she feared it was true in her own life, and her fear had become a feeling that tasted like disbelief. ↗

— Andre Dubus

#life

Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living. ↗

— Paul Kyriazi

#life

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers. ↗

— Joel Salatin

#philosophy #food

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world. ↗

— Gary Steiner

#humanity #morality #speciesism #life

Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #wisdom #experience

If I learned anything in this life, I've learned that you can't cling on. ↗

— Michael Morpurgo

#life

I still wonder how policy officials... can sit down at the table with their families and have any appetite for food, or go to sleep at night, knowing that they failed to act. Human beings were sacrificed for political convenience. This would be enough, I think, to turn any reasonable man into a prisoner of his own conscience for the rest of his life. ↗

— Paul Rusesabagina

#family

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food. ↗

— Betty Smith

#food

All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#kingdom #prognostication #inspirational

Keep Moving... Move forward Let go Give in Decide and just Do Progress every day And make one step forward no matter what's in your way Keep moving, till one day you wake up and you're there. ↗

— Emma Daley

#poem #poetry #poetry-life #poetry-quotes #life