#life

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more... ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#happiness #journal #life #life

This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves. ↗

— Charles Yu

#change #chronodiegetic-manipulation #good-news #life #the-universe

And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#cosmology #life #science #life

Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#life #stories #writing #change

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't. ↗

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#difference #life #make #movies #script

It's funny isn't it, how everything's changing all time. Nothing stays still. ↗

— Julia Green

#life #change

Nothing in this world is wrong, Unless, YOU consider it Wrong! ↗

— Dhruv Gandhi

#inspirational #lessons-for-man #life-changing #life-lessons #philosophy

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. ↗

— Hannu Rajaniemi

#change

If nothing changes then nothing changes. ↗

— C P Sennett

#life-lessons #change

All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung. ↗

— Megan Whalen Turner

#responsibility #life