#live

If we were rational creatures we would never get out of bed or live or love. ↗

— Belinda Jeffrey

#live #love #rational-creatures #love

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. ↗

— Richard Bach

#alive #earth #find #finished #here

Where other women ... were lovely, Annie Gamache was alive. Late, too late, Jean Guy Beauvoir had come to appreciate how very important it was, how very attractive it was, how very rare it was, to be fully alive. ↗

— Louise Penny

#love

You're cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you're stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today that you wasted is gone forever. It's now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you, but you'll never know. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#live-in-the-here-and-now #today #yesterday #love

With the rise of classical Greece, the soul debate evolved into the more familiar heart-versus-brain, the liver having been demoted to an accessory role. We are fortunate that this is so, for we would otherwise have been faced with Celine Dion singing "My Liver Belongs to You" and movie houses playing The Liver Is a Lonely Hunter. Every Spanish love song that contains the word corazon, which is all of them, would contain the somewhat less lilting higado, and bumper stickers would proclaim, "I [liver symbol] my Pekingese. ↗

— Mary Roach

#humor #liver #science #soul #love

I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel. ↗

— Elisabeth Eaves

#love #travel #wanderlust #life

…Man’s heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this ditch to drink the blood and so come to life again; the dearer they are to you, the more of your blood they drink.” - The Narrator. ↗

— Nikos Kazantzakis

#forever #heart #live #love #loved

Figure out what makes you laugh, and do more of it. Figure out what makes you cry, and do less of it. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-true-to-yourself #cry #crying #finding-yourself #happiness

When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There's a lesson there. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#full-circle #full-circle-moments #lessons #lessons-learned #life

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#does #else #god #i #live