#lit

Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#inevitability #success #life

In una parola, ero troppo codardo per fare quello che sapevo essere giusto, così come ero stato troppo codardo per evitare di fare quello che sapevo sbagliato. A quel tempo, non avevo avuto nessuna esperienza del mondo e non imitavo nessuno dei suoi molti abitanti che agiscono in questo modo. Genio assolutamente naturale, scoprii questa linea di condotta tutto da solo. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#growth #italiano #life #morality #pip

Eternity is the mentality for immortality. Make your mark; leave a positive legacy! ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#immortality #life #life

Don't demand from life but wait until life brings the good stuff. If only you're open for the possibilities. ↗

— Ann Marie Aguilar

#possiblity #life

Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life. ↗

— Nikki Gemmell

#loneliness #solitude #life

Pasmo sempre quando acabo qualquer coisa. Pasmo e desolo-me. O meu instinto de perfeição deveria inibir-me de acabar; deveria inibir-me até de dar começo. Mas distraio-me e faço. O que consigo é um produto, em mim, não de uma aplicação de vontade, mas de uma cedência dela. Começo porque não tenho força para pensar; acabo porque não tenho alma para suspender. Este livro é a minha cobardia. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#inner-self #life #solitude #life

Don't become a prisoner of your own reality, set yourself free by creating a life worth living. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#free #life-lessons #living #prisoner #reality

There's nothing gay about living life straight ↗

— Paul B. Tripp

#gay-and-lesbian #memoir #military #reparative-therapy #life

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behavior it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern. ↗

— Herman E. Daly

#morality #selfishness #life

On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has never been a war." She stopped reading, to rest her eyes and because she was trying to train herself to read slowly. "There has never been a war." In her mind the words stood clear and bright, surrounded by and sinking into an infinite, dark, soft incredulity. What would that world be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality. But my people, she thought, know only how to deny. Born in the dark shadow of power misused, we set peace outside our world, a guiding and unattainable light. All we know to do is fight. Any peace one of us can make in our life is only a denial that the war is going on, a shadow of the shadow, a doubled unbelief. So as the cloud-shadows swept over the marshes and the page of the book open on her lap, she sighed and closed her eyes. thinking, "I am a liar." Then she opened her eyes and read more about the other worlds, the far realities. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#reality #war #forgiveness