#life

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#life

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in their hands as they're holding it. ↗

— Timothy White

#even #hands #holding #life #make

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#life

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#dim #driven #existing #forward #general

Sept. 11 represented a terrorist attack aimed at destroying everything that America stands for - our freedoms and our way of life. ↗

— John Whitehead

#america #attack #destroying #everything #freedoms

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#beliefs #come #creator #doing #down

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grow sarcastic. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#love #sacrasm #life

Resentments are like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die. ↗

— Brenda Wilhelmson

#life

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling. ↗

— Serena Williams

#crying #difficult #fight #going #had

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#because #become #brilliant #doing #done