#life

And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea. ↗

— Voltaire

#life

the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#mental-illness #life

There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wore her clothing with such utter naturalness and grace that she could have been a bird that had wrapped itself in a special wind as it made ready to fly off to another world. He had never seen a woman who wore her clothes with such apparent joy. And the clothes themselves looked as if, in being draped on her body, they had won new life for themselves. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#optimism #life

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#love #nora-grey #patch-cipriano #life

Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor". ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#excellence #graduation #perseverance #quality #life

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library. ↗

— Peter Golkin

#bicycles #bike #bikes #conservation #favorite

We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#letting-go #life

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#writing #writing-life #life

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again. ↗

— Robert Brault

#life