#life

Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life #self #siddhartha #thought #dreams

Don't waste your time to make new dreams. but waste it to make one of your lifetime dream, come true. ↗

— Olivia Sinaga

#focus #lifetime #waste #dreams

Now to sum it up,' said Bernard. 'Now to explain to you the meaning of my life. Since we do not know each other (though I met you once I think, on board a ship going to Africa), we can talk freely. The illusion is upon me that something adheres for a moment, has roundness, weight, depth, is completed. This, for the moment, seems to be my life. If it were possible, I would hand it you entire. I would break it off as one breaks off a bunch of grapes. I would say, "Take it. This is my life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#conclusion #life #life

Such a simplified lifestyle can be truly wonderful - you'll finally have time for the things you really love, for relaxation, for outdoor activities, for exercise, for reading or finding peace and quiet, for the loved ones in your life, for the things you're most passionate about. This is what it means to thrive - to live a life full of the things you want in them, and not more. To live a better quality of life without having to spend and buy and consume. ↗

— Leo Babauta

#thrift #life

In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#mourning #memory

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#write #writing #writing-life #writing-process #art

A woman has but two loves in life: the one who broke her heart and the one she spends the rest of her life with." - Carolyn Chase, former Broadcast Journalist and heroine Kate Theodore's mother ↗

— Liz Newman

#quotes-about-heartbreak #romance #women-s-fiction #women-s-strength #life

You know, how I deal with all my problems in a daily life, I'm tweeting shit. ↗

— Ariel Seraphino

#problems #tweeting #twitter #twitter

If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#friends #inspirational #life #motivational #purpose

What is the difference between my life and my love? One gets me low, the other lets me go. ↗

— Vikram Seth

#loss #love #equality