#life

Eagerly wanted to prove something is one sign of lack of self-dependence. ↗

— Toba Beta

#self-dependence #wanted-to-prove-something #life

I had no schedule, no plan for today or the next, or the week after. Everything in my life just seemed to kind of roll together, collect speed and go thundering downhill. ↗

— Shannon Olson

#life

We could already try to lend a hand, to intervene if only by simply moving objects around. This would be better, on the whole, than waiting for the thick wall encircling life to brutally make the first move. (As happens during wartime.) ↗

— Tom McDonough

#life

THE WORST THING TO BE WITHOUT........HOPE ↗

— DEAN TAKEMOTO

#life

Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence. ↗

— Gao Xinjian

#writing-from-the-heart #writing-life #life

Each individual should be able to make good decisions without peer preassure. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#peer-preassure #life

Think of success and failure will not think of you. ↗

— Mohamad Hanif

#life

Whatever has gone on in the outer world has passed me by. But I think if anyone said to me, 'if you go on like this life will pass you by,' I would reply, 'thank God for that, I nearly got mixed up in the beastly thing. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#life

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. ↗

— Gideon J. (Gideon John) Tucker

#liberty #life #property #life

But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong. ↗

— George Eliot

#writing-advice #life