#life

You cannot fulfil God's purposes for your life while focusing on your own plans. ↗

— Rick Warren

#surrender #life

A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

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It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power! ↗

— Robert T. Kiosaki

#self-confidence #self-discovery #self-esteem #self-improvement #life

You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#mission #purpose #self-empowerment #self-esteem #self-love

You had your heart broken much?” He paused. “Of course. Everyone does. Part of life.” “Tell me her name. I’ll kick her ass. I don’t want anyone hurting you.” He rested his face against my hair, his tone even and gentle when he spoke. “You’re wondrous and powerful and gifted, but even you can’t save me from hurting. No one can do that for anyone. I can make things perfect in the fictions I create, but the real world isn’t so kind. That’s just how it is. And anyway, for every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.” “Like what?” “Like little blonde nieces. And royalty checks. And you. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #succubus-on-top #life

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. ↗

— Seán O'Casey

#laughter #life

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

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The pleasure of living and the pleasure of the orgasm are identical. Extreme orgasm anxiety forms the basis of the general fear of life. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#fear-of-life #orgasm #pleasure #psychoanalysis #psychology

If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation? ↗

— Karl Marx

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I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. ↗

— Lana Del Rey

#chameleon #elizabeth-woolridge-grant #life #lyrics #moral-compass