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Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would always have my back. It made me feel giant. I raced back down the concrete ramp, faster than I ever had before, so fast I should have fallen, but I didn't fall, because Mom was in the world. ↗

— Maria Semple

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The tension of opposites: Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#tuesdays-with-morrie #life

I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head. You just think that things will stay the way they are. You never look up, in a moment that feels like every other moment in your life, and think, "Soon this will be over". But I understand more now. About the way life works. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#hold-still #life #people #friendship

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#live-life #time #life

It was kind of soothing, these sounds of lives being lived all around me, for better or for worse. And there I was, in the middle of them all, newly reborn and still waiting for mine to begin. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#life-and-living #life

We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race. ↗

— H.G. Wells

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This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#manfred #mortality #life

Do you ever get scared? Yeah. Sometimes. It's not like you're walking around terrified all the time, even when things are going to hell around you. It's just you're....reacting, trying to stay alive. Things are happening so fast that you don't have time to think much of anything except doing your job and trying not to die. It usally affects you afterward, once you're clear. That's when you realize how close you came and sometimes you get the shakes or puke or whatever. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#life #loss #life