#life

Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life . . . the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#time #life

Take a deep breath, open your eyes, and close the book. ↗

— Gabriel Bá

#reading #life

Never underestimate the powe of silence ↗

— Lolalola

#silence #life

I don't want to live my life like a story. Always thinkin I could've been something. Don't run along side and control me. Just film away and let me be. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#control-me #divided #don-t-try-to-control-me #i-could-have-been-something #let-me-be

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are. ↗

— Jack Gantos

#problems #life

Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#durbyfield #hope #life #tess-of-the-d-urbervilles #thomas-hardy

But I needed this, Whit. I needed to pay him back. For stealing my life. For stealing our life together. - Celia ↗

— James Patterson

#james-pattereson #patterson #the-fire #whit #wisty

Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument—that, friends, is real wisdom. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#life

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259 ↗

— Rachel Naomi Remen

#life

For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#philosophy #war #life