#life

A life placed in the hands of God will be used by Him. ↗

— Matilda Wrede

#life #usefulness #life

I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#life

How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#left-off #pick #young #life

Life is not a plot; it's in the details. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life #plot #life

We never end up with the book we began writing. Characters twist it and turn it until they get the life that is perfect for them. A good writer won't waste their time arguing with the characters they create...It is almost always a waste of time and people tend to stare when you do! ↗

— C.K. Webb

#ck-webb #editing #insanity #re-writing #life

Depression is not madness, it's just depression, the loser version, the low-energy response to bad stuff that happens in your life. When you're depressed, you think you're the only one to have ever tasted this kind of hurt. And that lonely self-regard brings with it its own painful pleasure. ↗

— Ana Menéndez

#life

All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#life-lessons #life

It was strange watching somebody sleep. It felt intrusive, as if you had caught them at their most defenseless. And as you watched them, motionless, you couldn't help but wonder -if only for a moment- whether they had died, and watch furiously for signs of life ↗

— Justin Somper

#life

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show. ↗

— Stephen King

#truth #wisdom #life

To live meant feeding my former self to my current self. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#past #present #transformation #life