#les

You like to assign roles to the people in your life. And when they don't play their parts right, you have a hard time accepting that. ↗

— Kasie West

#life

Fucker, I though to myself. So irritated by a stare! I wonder what your reaction would have been if you had lived under occupation for as many years as I had, or if your shopping rights, like all of your other rights, were violated day and night, or if the olive trees in your grandfather's orchards had been uprooted, or if your village had been bulldozed, or if your house had been demolished, or if your sister could not reach her school, or if your brother had been given three life sentences, or if your mother had given birth at a checkpoint, or if you had stood in a line for days in the hot August summers waiting for your work permit, or if you could not reach your beloved ones in Arab East Jerusalem.... A stare, and you lose your mind! ↗

— Suad Amiry

#life

Why do we struggle so much? Why do we demand so much of life, when the happiest moments are when nothing is happening at all? ↗

— Chris Beckett

#life

Life isn't a lazy cruise on some endless, calm and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storms―overcast skies, fierce winds, and pelting rain. You were meant to be immersed in it all―first to float, then swim, and eventually to walk on water. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#growing #growth #hardships #learning #life

One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life #life-lessons #life

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone. ↗

— The Buddha

#life

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#attention #been #complaint #confine #consideration

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writers #writing-process #life

Sometimes it's hard to believe what we are really. ↗

— Riyadh Razzaq

#life-lessons #philosophy #riyadh-razzaq #sad #sad-but-true

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it. ↗

— Jane Austen

#life-lessons #life