#life

Adjectives are only comparisons. Who would I be considered without the thoughts and actions of others? Am I considered strong only because I have been compared to the weak? Beautiful because I am compared to the ugly? The people in this world can never know who they really are. They can try forever, but their efforts will only be futile. Now I say good luck to humanity. I hope you never let comparisons block your road of passion. They are falsely used and create trouble for everyone. ↗

— Abby Vander Pas

#life #beauty

È bello anche morire per le proprie idee... chi ha il coraggio di sostenere i propri valori muore una volta sola, chi ha paura muore ogni giorno. ↗

— Paolo Borsellino

#courage #life #courage

Men can have an obvious display of heroics or strength or accomplishment, but it is the unsung women throughout all ages of humankind who have endured with superlative strength, beauty and love, often with secret suffering, that deserve absolute respect and acknowlegement. They are the true heroes of humanity. They are the champions who have birthed and nurtured us, who have held us together at the most integral level, when men seemed intent only on tearing apart the fabric of life for irrelevant ideals. ↗

— Red Haircrow

#life #women #women-s-strength #age

What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were dead before we honored their spirit. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#inspiration #life #life-and-living #philosophy #philosophy-of-life

We always kept in our hearts the most noble, beautiful feeling that sets human beings apart: hope. ↗

— Manel Loureiro

#life #survival #zombies #beauty

All good writers write [terrible first drafts.] This is how they end up with good second drafts and terrific third drafts. . . I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them sits down routinely feeling wildly enthusiastic and confident. Not one of them writes elegant first drafts. All right, one of them does, but we do not like her very much. We do not think that she has a rich inner life or that God likes her or can even stand her. (Although when I mentioned this to my priest friend Tom, he said you can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writing-craft #writing-life #writing-process #beauty

Beauty’s not only skin deep. Just because a person is beautiful doesn’t mean there’s no soul beneath. Doesn’t mean that person hasn’t suffered like everyone else, doesn’t mean they don’t hope to still be a good human being in an awful world. (Gabriel) ↗

— Rachel Cohn

#judgement #life #perspective #true #beauty

A mindset of gratitude lifts the veil of bitterness and allows you to see beauty and possibility. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#bitterness #gratitude #life #possibility #veil

I have finally concluded, maybe that’s what life is about: there’s a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It’s as if those strains of music created an interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, that’s it, an always within never. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#philosophy #beauty

Thirty-nine years of my life had passed before I understood that clouds were not my enemy; that they were beautiful, and that I needed them. I suppose this, for me, marked the beginning of wisdom. Life is short. ↗

— Iimani David

#iimani-david #life #wisdom #beauty