#life

The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you. ↗

— Steven Galloway

#love #life

Eternity of struggle is life. ↗

— Shesh Nath Vernwal

#life

Loss leaves us empty- but learn not to close your heart and mind to grief. Allow life to replinish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible- but new ↗

— Pam Brown

#life

Manufacturers have long chosen plastic for their products on the basis of price and functionality., But creating a more sustainable relationship with plastics will require a new dexterity on our part. It will require us to think about the entire life cycle of the products we create and use. ↗

— Susan Freinkel

#sustainability #life

Believe in the holy contour of life ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#life #life

إذا تذكرت دائماً أن ما تمارسه سيصبح سمة مميزة لشخصيتك فإنك لا شك سوف تسلك أنواعاً من السلوك غير التي تسلكها الآن. ↗

— ريتشارد كارلسون

#personality #self-development #life

I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables. I thought about my small victories and everything I'd seen destroyed, I'd swum through mink coats on my parents' bed while they hosted downstairs, I'd lost the only person I could have spent my only life with, I'd left behind a thousand tons of marble, I could have released sculptures, I could have released myself from the marble of myself. I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless. None of my pets know their own names, what kind of person am I? ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#life

She supposed they were imperfections, these marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body, the map of a life of endless war. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life

First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is: manipulative, controlling, power-hungry, and, in the long run, destructive. The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to remind yourself of this. Every time you feel hurt, offended, or rejected, you have to dare to say to yourself: 'These feelings, strong as they may be, are not telling me the truth about myself. The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity, and held safe in an everlasting belief. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#god-s-love #life

Life is the messy bits. ↗

— Lise Friedman

#claire #sophie #life