#life

I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes. ↗

— Fiona Apple

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Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be acheived unless we first establish peace within our own minds. We can send so-called 'peacekeeping forces' into areas of conflict, but peace cannot be oppossed from the outside with guns. Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world. ↗

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

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The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct. ↗

— Michael Crichton

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We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life. ↗

— Melissa Andrea

#love #love-hurts #love-story #silk #silkiness

Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore. ↗

— Chad Sugg

#happy #inspirational #life #love #inspirational

Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing about in the Red Sea. No one heard my hollers. In the end an old fisherman set me free, by which time I was desperate enough to grant him several wishes. I erupted in the form of a smoking giant, did a few lightning bolts, and bent to ask him his desire. Poor old boy had dropped dead of a heart attack. There should be a moral there, but for the life of me I can't see one. ↗

— Jonathan Stroud

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It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up. ↗

— C.J. Redwine

#fair #giving-up #hope #life #perseverance

All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#tragedy #life

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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