#life

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it. ↗

— Mark Doty

#life #living #love #philosophy #life

Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#love #pamuk #snow #life

I've made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I'm so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I'm a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it.... ↗

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#mistakes #song #life

Pelit itu payah! Hemat itu jenius! ↗

— Yoshichi Shimada

#humor #life-lessons #pelit #pennywise #stingy

I blinked deliberately, expecting my eyelids to act like lumberjacks. But the trees would not fall. ↗

— Yann Martel

#of #pi #life

The past is truly an inoperable tumor that spreads to the present. ↗

— Steve Tolz

#life #life

It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#life

When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere. ↗

— Stacy Schiff

#snakes #woman #life

Don't ya wanna hear the secret?' his eyes were narrow and mean, despite the glaze of rum. Louer drained his glass and slammed it to the bar. 'You get happy by learnin' to say 'yes' to what life offers you, but stay happy by rememberin' when to start sayin' 'no'. ↗

— T.B. McKenzie

#life

you’re already naked in this world in this time in this life beacause your next love your next hunger you next laughter and even your next tear may never come ↗

— Baharak Sedigh

#love #persian-poetry #poetry #life