#life

Do anything, but let it produce joy. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#enjoy-life #live-life #life

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#ender #ender-wiggin #life-lessons #life

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#life

It's not that I believe everything happens for a reason. It's just that . . . I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#life #life

I learned that I was either crazy in love with you, or putting on the best performance of my life.' -Nora (PG 263) ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#nora-gray #life

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #life

All salvation is temporary,' Augustus shot back. 'I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour that buys them a year. No one's gonna buy them forever, Hazel Grace, but my life bought them a minute. And that's not nothing.' ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #life

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#longing #love #relationships #story-people #life

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#life #past #life

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#life #life