#life

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. ↗

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

#ambiguous #finished #got #life #once

Work is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#best #brings #come #day #delight

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