#life

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#religion #life

We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #past #present #thoughts #life

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#being #hesse #life #siddhartha #unity

You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#romance #life

The average american spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green. six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#mccafferty #megan #sloppy #life

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#poet-quotes #life

[Praying] demands that you take to the road again and again, leaving your house and looking forward to a new land for yourself and your [fellow human]. This is why praying demands poverty, that is, the readiness to live a life in which you have nothing to lose so that you always begin afresh. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

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Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#life

If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all. ↗

— Cameron Dokey

#life