#life

We have talked about Suzy and about her last days, but it's as if our lives stopped then and there. If I say anything to him about feeling lonesome, he goes outside and does some little chore. I can't tell if he is secretly blaming me, or himself, or just too full of pain to talk. That was the one thing we could always do together. I wish for the old days. I wish for the struggling days and the days of Geronimo, and the days of birthing Charlie with no one but Jack to help me. How happy and in love we were then. I want to be in love again, but all I feel is darkness and shadows. Everything is changed and different ↗

— Nancy E. Turner

#death #depression #life #loneliness #marriage

Life would have been quite another matter for them both if they had learned in time that it was easier to avoid great matrimonial catastrophes than trivial everyday miseries. But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#inspirational #life-lessons #funny

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms ↗

— John Steinbeck

#change

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Lesser

#enlightening #life #transition #change

A vision should be judged by the clarity of its values, not the clarity of its implementation path [in Mediated Modeling page 43] ↗

— Donella H. Meadows

#life

There was something behind the softness that intertwined our fingers together—love? It felt different from two days ago. All I could think about was his smooth hand, wrapped in mine. It was more than affection—but I wasn’t sure how much more, or if that would ever change. ↗

— Alysha Speer

#derek #hand #kill #kiss #life

But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable. ↗

— Elizabeth Strout

#change

Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo. ↗

— Minton Sparks

#philosophy-of-life #poet #storyteller #change

Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes. ↗

— Joan Lingard

#life

Not all men are destined for greatness," I reminded him. "Are you sure, Fitz? Are you sure? What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? A sadder thing I cannot imagine. Why should not a mother say to herself, if I raise this child aright, if I love and care for her, she shall live a life that brings joy to those about her, and thus I have changed the world? Why should not the farmer that plants a seed say to his neighbor, this seed I plant today will feed someone, and that is how I changed the world today? ↗

— Robin Hobb

#philosophy-of-life #change