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You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideals come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an ideal next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing. ↗

— Warren Buffett

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(Georgie) Two hundred years later and it's exactly the same thing. You want to spend every single moment with your children and still have a fulfilling life at work. ↗

— Nancy Woodruff

#motherhood #women #life

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He saw them toiling, saw them suffering, and becoming gray for the sake of things which seemed to him to be entirely unworthy of this price, for money, for little pleasures, for being slightly honoured.... ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. ↗

— Francis H. Bradley

#goodness #life #life

You knew then that this was not any kind of hospital that cured, but a hospital that held, that kept their patients away from the rest of the world, a kind of ark that floated along full of life, but not participating in life.... These people no longer made progress. ↗

— Anne Spollen

#hospital #sanity #life

You are not in the dark" I said Patiently."Look, I have left the Candle." But I knew, as I looked at him, that it would have made no difference if I had left him fifty candles. The darkness he feared was in his own mind, and there was no light int he universe powerful enough to take that darkness from him.... Physically and mentally, I had scarred him for life. ↗

— Susan Kay Phantom

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Takdir itu menyimpan misteri, tak bisa kita tolak garisnya. Barangkali, yang harus dilakukan adalah bertahan karena bisa jadi garis itu akan membawa kita pada sesuatu hal yang tak terduga. -86 ↗

— Sanie B. Kuncoro

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Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#cruel-lesson #direction #past #path #turning-back-the-pages

To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning, life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu had eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all. ↗

— Eugene B. Sledge

#horror #time #war #life

What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us and hug him close to our bosoms tillhe has gnawed into our hearts? ↗

— Voltaire

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