#life

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#being #being a teenager #disastrous #fluffy #i

There's a way, a way way too long but reachable, not for everyone a way but possible... Go and don't lose your way! ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#courage-in-life #courage-to-be-oneself #fulfillment #life-contentment-happy #life-path

Il n’est pas nécessaire d’espérer pour entreprendre, ni de réussir pour persévérer." Roughly translates as: "It is not necessary to be hopeful in order to try, nor to be successful in order to persevere. ↗

— William of OrangeNassau

#inspirational

When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down, Creep home and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young. ↗

— Susanna Kearsley

#poetry #home

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. ↗

— John Patrick

#life #makes #man #pain #think

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#age

If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#down #even #god #i #life

I can't see that Danish episode as an adventure, or a crisis survived, or a serious quest for anything definable. It was just another happening like today's luncheon, something I got into and got out of. And it reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonably well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#life-experience #life-lessons #living #age

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#travel #life

In every waking moment, it is our next choice that makes us who we are. ↗

— Melissa McPhail

#inspirational #success #attitude