#life

I don't have but two teeth, but thank the Lord they both hit together. ↗

— Karen Cecil Smith

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We all make basic assumptions about things in life, but sometimes those assumptions are WRONG. We must never trust in what we assume, only in what we KNOW. ↗

— Darren Shan

#darren-shan #zom-b #life

To love, or to have loved,—this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is no other pearl to be found in the shadowy folds of life. To love is a fulfilment ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Keep your thoughts and your mind always going forward ahead on the roads of life, just as you would do driving your car. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #life

Your mistakes... Should always guide you to a better life And Not define you to help keep you in the past ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #life

How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another's heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? Even if the world's rich and powerful were to put themselves in the shoes of the rest, how much would they really understand the wretched millions suffering around them? So it is when Orhan the novelist peers into the dark corners of his poet friend's difficult and painful life: How much can he really see? ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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Pornography, it seems to me, is no different from war films or propaganda films in that it tries to make the visceral, horrific, or transgressive elements of life consumable ↗

— Michael Haneke

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The number two, he thought, was an ominous number. Two is a reflection or duplication of one, the most perfect of the natural numbers. Two is all echo and counterpoise; two is the beginning of multiplicity, the way the universal oneness differentiates itself and breaks apart into strings and quarks and photons, all the separate and component pieces of life. Two is a symbol of becoming as opposed to pure being... ↗

— David Zindell

#phenomenology #spirituality #life

I think it's a great honor to win an Oscar but I think if you aim to be rewarded in your life you'll get nowhere. I think that the biggest reward is the work itself and what you get out of it and the connections you make with other people. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#rewards #life

The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD! ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#self-esteem #life