#lia

Spending time, here in Eufaula, has helped me realize that barreling through life at a breakneck pace -- while exciting, sometimes glamorous, and always loads of fun -- has been, at best, a distraction. A useful tool in avoiding personal introspection or thoughts of the future. ↗

— Lauren Clark

#dancing-naked-in-dixie #life

Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#hopes #humiliation #life #nature #perspective

The capitan...one of those tall, arrogant, acerbically handsome niggers that most of the planet feels inferior to. Also one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#life

Be the person you really are and not the person you'e allowed yourself to become," Kate said to Nikki. From 'Life Song ↗

— Christine M. Knight

#from- #life

Psychologist Erich Fromm coined the term ["biophilia"] in 1964 as a way of describing the innate attraction to processes of life and growth. ↗

— Adam Leith Gollner

#page- #life

But you cant be alive forever, and you always wear out life long before you have exhausted the possibilities of living. And all that must be somewhere; all that could not have been invented and created just to be thrown away. And the earth is shallow; there is not a great deal of it before you come to the rock. And the earth dont want to just keep things, hoard them; it wants to use them again. ↗

— William Faulkner

#william-faulkner #life

If it is to be, it's up to thee. You are responsible for your success. ↗

— Rob Liano

#motivation #rob-liano #rock-star #self-help #life

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. ↗

— William Goldman

#garden #heart #hidden-treasure #love #secret

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #julian #lauren-oliver #lena #requiem

Eternity with Artemis?" He heaved a big sigh. Thalia rolled her eyes. "You satyrs. You're all in love with Artemis. Don't you get that she'll never love you back?" "But she's so…into nature," Grover swooned. "You're nuts," said Thalia. "Nuts and berries," Grover said dreamily. "Yeah. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#grover-underwood #thalia-grace #love