#life

I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#life

Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life

The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#happiness #life #life

it is madness in al women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#pride #women-s-strength #life

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again. ↗

— Benjamin Rush

#nature #society #woods #life

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#life #solitude #life

But Anne, do you love him?" I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. "I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#life #love #life

...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process. ↗

— Elaine St. James

#simple-life #simple-living #life

Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun. ↗

— Patti Digh

#verb #write #writer #writing-life #life

In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#appearances #world #life