#life

Eve continued with the inexorable process of dying, Zoe spent too much time with her grandparents, and Denny and I worked at slowing the beating of our hearts so we wouldn't feel so much pain. ↗

— Garth Stein

#pain #sad #art

8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine and deep and necessary. You don't have time for silly trivial things. You live seriously. You don't go to silly films, even if you want to; you don't read cheap newspapers; you don't listen to trash on the wireless and the telly; you don't waste time talking about nothing. You use your life. ↗

— John Fowles

#life #art

Someone once told me that life wasn't fair...and they were right. But I don't think that life was ever meant to be fair or perfect. It's not the tragedy, it's how we deal with it. It's whether we come out stronger because of it. It's not about blocking out the pain or hiding from it, it's about letting the pain shape you into someone better than you were before. ↗

— Nicole Garber

#strength #strength-through-adversity #art

There you have it: our lives in a nutshell. Emphasis on nut. ↗

— James Patterson

#funny #life #lol #nuts #funny

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #emotions #life #art

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#beauty #life #love #nature #art

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#avalanche #bury #fallen #going #just

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead. ↗

— Austin Kleon

#creativity #inspiration #learning #life #success

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. ↗

— Aberjhani

#beauty #famous-poets #life #philosophy #poetry

You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#life #love #beauty