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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of squalid misery and hideous and unspeakable infamy, and I should have been worse than a coward if I had shrunk from doing what was necessary; but there would have been no use whatever in my reading novels detailing all this misery and squalor and crime, or at least in reading them as a steady thing. Now and then there is a powerful but sad story which really is interesting and which really does good; but normally the books which do good and the books which healthy people find interesting are those which are not in the least of the sugar-candy variety, but which, while portraying foulness and suffering when they must be portrayed, yet have a joyous as well as a noble side. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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Grace is alive, living waters. If I dam up the grace, hold the blessings tight, joy within dies... waters that have no life. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

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If you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can’t wait until sixty-five. ↗

— Mitch Albom

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I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters ↗

— David Sedaris

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Common aim is stronger than blood. ↗

— G.I. Gurdjieff

#goal #goals #goals-in-life #life

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#life #lows #nothing #truth #life

Soon enough it will be me struggling (valiantly?) to walk - lugging my stuff around. How are we all so brave as to take step after step? Day after day? How are we so optimistic, so careful not to trip and yet do trip, and then get up and say O.K. Why do I feel so sorry for everyone and so proud? ↗

— Maira Kalman

#humanity #life #struggle #life

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. ↗

— George Eliot

#truth-of-life #life

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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The sadest part of love life is when you cannot live with and without the one you love ↗

— Amit Abraham

#love-life #saddest #without #life