#life

Of course he knew what kinds of thoughts these were: the not-always-true ones, conveniently forgetting the other times, when he and Christine had bickered at the smallest thing, aggravated by the other's mere constant presence, and sometimes even said awful things--irreversible and stinging-- that lingered like a foul odor for a long time afterward. Then there were long stretches of calm. And yet the bickering, the irritation, that too was part of the delicate glue that kept them together, still feeling something, even when they grew, sometimes for long periods, bored with each other, tired of each other, before settling back into their more usual, tamed and tamped down but still real and extant love. ↗

— Daphne Kalotay

#life

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy. ↗

— George Eliot

#marriage #meekness #patience #life

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves. ↗

— James Joyce

#life

She hoped that Tin Win would learn what she had learned over the years: that there are wounds time does not heal, though it can reduce them to a manageable size. ↗

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

#life #pain #art

Learn to appreciate the things you have in the life you're living. It is your present. ↗

— Adem Spahic

#awesome #life #life-is-beautiful #living #present

Nemoj da se sažaljevaš. To rade samo kreteni. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #attitude

The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. It will not happen to me. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#death-and-dying #goodbyes #life #beauty

Accept that there are things in this world we can never explain and life will be understandable. That is the irony of life. It is also the beauty of it. ↗

— Tan Twan Eng

#beauty

How long, I wonder, does it take a thing or a place or even a person to feel like home? ↗

— Lauren Baratz-Logsted

#life-s-inquiries #beauty

One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and not accept all the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#conventions #duty #gustave-flaubert #life #madame-bovary