#lit

The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'. ↗

— Stacey Kade

#life #normal #reality #the-ghost-and-the-goth #truth

Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#buddhism #enlightenment #spiritual-journey #spiritual-journeys #spirituality

I couldn't tell anyone how I felt because I knew they wouldn't understand. Oh, poor little Christina, falling for the bad man who treats her like dirt because she didn't know any better. And isn't it a pity that they don't still teach sex-ed in schools? Or, oh, Christina, that filthy slut, if she puts out for a man like that, I imagine she puts out for anyone. You stay away from her. It wasn't like that at all. Maybe it would have been easier if it was, just like ticking a box. Are you the Madonna, or the whore? The victim, or the vixen? The Sabine, or the skank? But nothing in life is ever that simple. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#female-characters #feminism #hypocrisy #life #purity

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so? ↗

— H. Rider Haggard

#foolishness #futility #humanity #intelligence #knowledge

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value. ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#humanity #immortality #life #mortality #life

There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties. ↗

— Toba Beta

#politics #truth #world #life

There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself. ↗

— David Ignatow

#solitude #life

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#life #probability #statistically #truth #life

And do you know another thing, Arthur? Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds. ↗

— T.H. White

#life #merlin #nobility #pacifism #peace

God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#adversity #battles #come-full-circle-in-life #life-challenges #life-missions