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Now these ashes gave grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed empire, words without warmth. The hearth has ebbed, its gleam and life's sparks are but memories against dimming eyes - what cast my mind, what hue my thoughts as I open the Book of the Fallen and breathe deep the scent of history? Listen, then, to these words carried on that breath. These tales are the tales of us all, again yet again. We are history relived and that is all, without end that is all. ↗

— Steven Erikson

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Betrayal. Lust. Secrecy. Devotion. I think we do these things to feel more alive. When the truth is that alive is alive -- you can feel it in anything, if you give it a chance. ↗

— David Levithan

#life #life

In fact, it's true throughout all of Scripture....Following Jesus isn't something you can do at night where no one notices. It's a twenty-four-hour-a-day commitment that will interfere with your life. That's not the small-print--that's a guarantee. ↗

— Kyle Idleman

#christianity #life

Perfection is not just about control.It's also about letting go. ↗

— Black Swan Darren Aronofsky

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I could relate to Miss Lucy because her life made absolutely no sense. ↗

— David Levithan

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To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrestled from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things than came easily. ↗

— Jon Krakauer Into the Wild

#meaning-of-life #life

Is it really love to tell someone that if it came down to picking between them and every other life on the planet, you’d pick them? Is that — I don’t know, is that a moral sort of love at all?" "Love isn’t moral or immoral," said Clary. "It just is." "I know," Simon said. "But the actions we take in the name of love, those are moral or immoral. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #simon-lewis #life

If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life-lesson #love #life

[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar. ↗

— Jenny O'Connell

#life #life-lessons #love #life

Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...you give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#interdependence #life #love #life