#les

Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#life

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back ↗

— Ally Condie

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Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#grief #senselessness #time #life

You carry/All the ingredients/To turn your life into a nightmare--/Don't mix them! ↗

— حافظ

#life

...people with nothing to declare carry the most. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#carry #life #nothing #struggles #life

Only if you are possible, everything will be possible. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#impossible #life-lessons #possible #life

But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood. They only need to be followed. If not, what they promise won’t come true. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#life #love #promises #life

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#life-lessons #scars #wisdom #wounds #life

The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its details, whatever the omissions, the exceptions, or the faults - is the march from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from the false to the true, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from rottenness to life, from brutality to duty, from Hell to Heaven, from nothingness to God. Starting point: matter; goal: the soul. Hydra at the beginning, angel at the end. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#victor-hugo #life