#less

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#happiness #life #wealth #life

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone. ↗

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#men #life

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know. ↗

— Joe Hill

#life

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life

In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself. ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#life

Life is a succesion of lessons which must be lived to be understood. ↗

— Helen Keller

#life #life

(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#life-lessons #ren #life

Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#life #possibility #regrets #what-if #life

Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#life

If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life ↗

— Richelle Mead

#love #life