#life

I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#life-experience #life-lessons #living #age

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#travel #life

In every waking moment, it is our next choice that makes us who we are. ↗

— Melissa McPhail

#inspirational #success #attitude

If you are feeling demotivated, it does not means that the environment is not positive. It you, who is not taking the challenge positively. ↗

— Ram Mohan

#attitude-toward-life #challenges #feelings #motivation #positive-approach

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#cannot #conditioned #consensus #day #force

To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future. ↗

— Neil Peart

#condition #even #future #get #life

When death tells a story yo really have to listen ↗

— Markus Zusak

#death

We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#because #being #blown #event #frightened

Once you realize your past is just a story, it no longer has any power over you. ↗

— Robert Tew

#life-quote #past #quote #life

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental. ↗

— Pele

#accidental #come #hard #i #injuries