#life

Patience is learned through waiting ↗

— E'yen A. Gardner

#patience #waiting #life

Life was hard. Life was good. Most folks think this a contradiction, but I have learned that the hardest, most difficult times of my life caused the most growth in my character. ↗

— Chuck Black

#kingdom-s-edge #life

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history. ↗

— Stacy Schiff

#facts-and-ideas #history #myth #life

I used to think I knew all the answers. Then I thought I knew maybe a few of the answers. Now I'm not even sure I understand the questions. Nobody knows anything. ↗

— Pete Nelson

#questions-and-answers #experience

There are no medicines to bring a dead thing back to life. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

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If you're looking for something more in life, you're likely to find it in something less. ↗

— Jeff Yeager

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My shoulders sagged. Really, is it too much to ask that I be able to come home from a long day of work and relax? Oh, no. I have to come home and read a bunch of letters written to the love of my life by his fiancée, who, if I am correct, had him killed a hundred and fifty years ago. Then, as if that is not bad enough, he wants me to explain the Vietnam War. ↗

— Meg Cabot

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...the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. you either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache. ↗

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

#laughter #life-lessons #life

All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid. ↗

— Anne Rice

#women #life

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#life