#life

I've always welcomed war, but when the last battle ends, what life is left for a warrior? ↗

— Andrea Cremer

#life

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them. ↗

— Rick Bragg

#success #life

If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather than lying around hoping the other person will do it for you. ↗

— E. Lockhart

#philosophy-of-life #life

If everything is important, then nothing is. ↗

— Patrick Lencioni

#life

The people I'm stuck with in my life now aren't sucking the life out of me, they just suck. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#stuck #suck #life

Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life #life

I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we´re still alive. ↗

— Stephen King

#life #life

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#pessimism #unhappiness #life

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. ↗

— Rachel Carson

#science #war #life

A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#fortune #good #good fortune #great #happened