#less

Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's. ↗

— Nancy McKenzie

#life #life-lessons #death

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death. ↗

— Jane Austen

#death

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been loved, but I had nothing to show. It was a singularly plain, featureless landscape. I felt like I was in a video game. A surrogate Pacman, crunching blindly through a labyrinth of dotted lines. The only certainty was my death. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#death #falling #featureless #labyrinth #nothing

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#criminals #god #good-and-bad #good-and-evil #heaven

I realized that life doesn't work that way-that just because you have dreams and make plans, it doesn't mean that they will come true. ↗

— Heather London

#life-lessons #dreams

But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#loneliness #longing #change

Another summer day has come and gone away in Paris and Rome, but I wanna go home..." Home-Alan Chang; Amy Foster-Gillies; Michael Buble ↗

— Karla M. Nashar

#beauty

Even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#life-lessons #truth #wisdom #change

For forgiveness to work in your life, it has to be genuine. It has to come from the heart. When it does, it is so powerful that bitterness fades away and you are able to see the “gifts” in what has happened. I also think forgiveness is a kind of humility." -Winsome Campbell-Green ↗

— Winsome Campbell-Green

#life-lessons #motivational #change

In spite of illness, in spite of even the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual state of disintegration if one is unafraid of change. Insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things and happy in small ways. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#change