#life

Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#angry #forgive #forgiveness #grudge #happiness

لقد تعلمتُ واعتدت أن أستخرج من الأحلام التي لم تتحق قط ، أسبابًا متماسكة لمواصلة العيش ↗

— Álvaro Mutis

#life #noval #dreams

When it comes to what you really want in life. Dont take no for an answer. Take no for a question and Go for it! ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#passionate-life #dreams

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience. ↗

— John Dewey

#learning-from-mistakes #life #experience

They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#dreams

She gave me money to buy condoms, and instead I bought a book of baby names. That’s life. That’s love. That’s fiscally irresponsible.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#baby #baby-names #birth #condoms #fiscally-irresponsible

When Lytle was born, the Wright Brothers had not yet achieved a working design. When he died, Voyager 2 was exiting the solar system. What does one do with the coexistence of those details in a lifetime’s view? It weighed on him. ↗

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

#history #life #old-age #age

And I couldn't make fun of her for that dream. It was my dream, too. And Indian boys weren't supposed to dream like that. And white girls from small towns weren't supposed to dream big, either. We were supposed to be happy with our limitations. But there was no way Penelope and I were going to sit still. Nope, we both wanted to fly: ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#inspirational #limitations #over-coming-odds #prospects-on-life #dreams

Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been fulfilled. I saw that what transpires in the mind is just as real as any flesh and blood occurrence. What had only been imagination in life, now became tangible, each fantasy a full reality. I lived them all—while, at the same time, standing to the side, a witness to their, often, intimate squalor. A witness cursed with total objectivity. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#life #death

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#religious #dreams