#life

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow. ↗

— Tess Gerritsen

#life #love #life

Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ↗

— Friedrich Richter

#power-of-music #life

Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done. ↗

— Madonna

#life #life

But I believe I rather like superstitious people. They lend color to life. Wouldn't it be a rather drab world if everybody was wise and sensible . . . and good? What would we find to talk about? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#talk #world #life

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#place #search #life

In prosperity, our friends know us. In adversity, we know our friends ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#life

You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you. ↗

— Stephen King

#life

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme. ↗

— John Lennon

#music #life

I just saved your fucking life, Mom. . . . You could at least offer me an Oreo. ↗

— Neal Stephenson

#life

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#philosophy #science #life