#life

An author's dream does not necessarily come instantly. Rather, it is cultivated and nurtured, every epiphany and idea are like rain drops that bring life to the story being written. ↗

— M.J. Stoddard

#m-j-stoddard-quotes #dreams

For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#life

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#dawn #elderly #government #handicapped #how

While a handful of countries and a small number of people are leading ample life, dozens of countries and billions of people in Africa, Asia and Latin America are being left in absolute poverty. ↗

— Tran Duc Luong

#africa #america #ample #asia #being

His life was a party which tragically came to an early end. ↗

— David J. Cooper

#drugs #male-prostitution #tragedy #life

All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing. ↗

— Rex Hunt

#because #been #end #fishing #gonna

This was not an Indiana Jones classic holovid; it was real life. ↗

— Karen Lord

#life

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends. ↗

— Holly Hunter

#become #connected #daughters #deeply #during

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man. ↗

— Rachel Hunter

#dreadful #fall #go #i #life

Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good. ↗

— William Hurlbut

#amusing #angels #being #devils #good