#life

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. ↗

— Anne Baxter

#best #bird #early #failure #happen

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#again #attention #bring #concerned #fathers

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#age #common #dull #each #happy

Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must've hit a window. Calvin: Isn't it beautiful? It's so delicate. Sighhh... once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is. You realize that nature is ruthless and our existence is very fragile, temporary, and precious. But to go on with your daily affairs, you can't really think about that...which is probably why everyone takes the world for granted and why we act so thoughtlessly. It's very confusing. I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up. Hobbes: No doubt. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#beauty

Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am. ↗

— Lake Bell

#am #feign #i #i am #i think

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second. ↗

— Marc Riboud

#life #photo #photograph #photography #photos

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family. ↗

— Joachim du Bellay

#experienced #family #fine #golden #happy

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid. ↗

— Clara Bow

#did #even #even now #i #kid

I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#believe #child #completely #first #i

No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. ↗

— Henry F. Ashurst

#great #great principle #his #life #man