#life

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. ↗

— Truman Capote

#life #lonely #major #regret #unnecessarily

But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#anymore #became #because #change #cut

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#poetry #life

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#everything #experience #explanations #hope #important

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. ↗

— Drew Carey

#anything #as far as #depend #far #financial

Önümüzde hayat... Her gün bir başka uykuya yatıp bir başka rüya göreceğiz. Halbuki her zaman, ağır ağır bizimle beraber akan nehir, bir göle varıyordu. Bu gölde artık biz akmıyor, dalgalanmıyorduk. Yahut bana öyle geliyordu. ↗

— Sait Faik Abasıyanık

#life

I know you can't live on hope alone; but without hope, life is not worth living. So you, and you and you: you got to give them hope; you got to give them hope. ↗

— Harvey Milk

#life

Life comes full circle. ↗

— Tracey Gold

#comes #full #life

In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude. ↗

— صادق هدایت

#life

We are all capable of becoming something monstrous. ↗

— Cyraus Foldger

#philosophy-of-life-people #psychology #life