#live

They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, over Rochester, over every fenced-in city in the whole country, and I will bomb and bomb and bomb, and watch all their buildings smoldering to dust, and all those people melting and bleeding into flame, and I will see how they like it. If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#lauren-oliver #lena #pandemonium #wilds #imagination

I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#age #american #american dream #because #dream

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday. ↗

— Pradeepa Pandiyan

#family #freedom #inspirational #journey #life

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#live-in-the-moment #realization #life

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#enjoy-life #indolence #live-in-the-moment #life

Just that dwelling and planning is bullshit, you dwell on the past, you can’t move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you stay stagnant in the same place all your life. Live in the moment, where everything is just right, take your time and limit your bad memories and you’ll get wherever it is you’re going a lot faster and with less bumps in the road along the way. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#life

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#adversity #easy #effort #envy #lives

These are the days that must happen to you. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#live-life #life

She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#live-life #sensuality #life

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#enjoy #figured #finally #i #only