#life

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. ↗

— Sterling W. Sill

#inspirational

Then Carrot said, "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness, captain. That's what they say." "What?" Vimes sudden rage was like a thunderclap. "Who says that? When has that ever been true? It's never been true! It's the kind of thing people without power say to make it all seem less bloody awful, but it's just words, it never makes any difference - ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#quotes #men

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, ‘I am doing God's will on earth.’ All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#life-purpose #work #men

Son tres los tigres los que se juntan para atacar: el paso de los años (ese monstruo que llamamos edad), la condicion femenina (flor que se por ser flor deja de serlo para ser recuerdo de flor), y ese albur al que alegremente llamamos vida. ↗

— Josefina Barron

#women #women-s-strength #inspirational

Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined. ↗

— Mohamed Zahy Hussain

#defusing #examples #inspirational #life #moral

I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house. ↗

— Julian Clary

#full #gratitude #house #i #i am

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life. ↗

— Thomas Haden Church

#been #defined #failure #his #hopeful

But you know what? Peace is just an idea. There will never be peace on Earth, at least, not the kind of kumbaya-harmony people envision. There can be ceasefires and treaties, but we will never know true peace. That's the sad truth of the world. ↗

— June Gray

#life-quote #peace #true #inspirational

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#consciousness #corner #covered #extraordinary #i

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana. ↗

— Lana Turner

#been #close #humor #lana #life