#life

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#life #wisdom #life

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry I cry and when you hurt I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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Some people have lives; some people have music. ↗

— John Green

#life #music #humor

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#world #life

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. ↗

— Henry Miller

#power #life

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

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When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. ↗

— Donald Miller

#people #perfection #relationships #life

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#passion #war #life

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. ↗

— Yann Martel

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