#les

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was ↗

— Jean Kwok

#life

I told her running away from your problems doesn't solve anything. Really it just hurts the people who count on you. ↗

— Kyle Beachy

#problems #running #the-slide #life

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it. ↗

— Paul Christopher

#life-lessons #life

I'll stand next to that fountain and wait until the Official find me. And when she does and asks me what I'm doing, I'll tell her and everyone else that I know: t hey are giving us pieces of a real life instead of the whole thing. And I'll tell her that I don't want my life to be samples and scraps. A taste of everything but a meal of nothing. ↗

— Ally Condie

#real-life #samples #life

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#failure #life

Life is good, even though we forget it sometimes. ↗

— Abraham M. Alghanem

#life-lessons #life

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again! ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#life

The rule for working out prime numbers is very simple, but no one has ever worked out a simple formula for telling you whether a very big number is a prime number or what the next one will be. […] Prime numbers is what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#rules-of-life #life

It takes ten times longer to put yourself together than it does to fall apart. -Finnick ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#life

Sometimes it seemed that she and rudy were two people attempting to tango, sweating and trying, long after the orchestra had grown tired, long after everyone else had gone home. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#stagnant-relationships #struggles-in-relationships #life