#life

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life. ↗

— Anthony Perkins

#adventure #aids #competitive #did #ever

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#love #life

I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left. ↗

— Pauley Perrette

#anymore #around #big #college #contain

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health. ↗

— Anne Perry

#before #born #both #couple #england

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life #mirrors #art

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#meaning #meaning-of-life #pain #reality #art

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we? ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#artists #life #art

Learn from what's behind you but look forward to what's ahead. It would be a sad, sad existence if you believed your best had already come and gone. Believe instead the truth...that the best is yet to be because that part's up to you. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#attitude

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#death #fiction #i #life #reality

I figure you get out of life just about what you put into it. ↗

— Lee Petty

#figure #get #i #into #just