#life

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#life #losing #love #nostalgia #pain

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#service #life

No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#life

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all. ↗

— Richard Wright

#words #life

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life

Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college. ↗

— John Green

#life

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#death #life #meaning #mementos #ordinariness

I think all of us as women have this super-human quality. We create life, we give life, we are the sources of life for our children - we're all pretty bionic. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#create #give #i #i think #life

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#god #heaven #judgement #talent #life

In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away, love can only survive when the hope exists that you will be able to win over the person you desire. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life