#lives

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly. ↗

— James Baldwin

#beauty #because #here #live #lived

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe. ↗

— Lance Bass

#believe #every #feel #i #i believe

...we lay there in the dark for a split second before the beast galumphed toward us. Meabh, always quick with a sword, sprang to her feet and charged the dragon head-on while I mostly just wondered who or what I'd offended in a past life that this one was peopled by dragons. Except I didn't have any past lives, so apparently I'd offended somebody in this life and was facing instant karma. That didn't really improve anything, in my ever so humble opinion. ↗

— C.E. Murphy

#karma #past-lives #life

You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read. ↗

— Tatyana Tolstaya

#fantasy #lives #reading #wonder #worlds

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans. ↗

— Tom Allen

#avenue #believe #community #congress #i

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#about #art #assumes #because #better

My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#diagnosed #entire #entire lives #grew #i

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. ↗

— David Attenborough

#between #both #dependency #environment #lives

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#himself #lives #universe #who

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#know #live #lives #man #meant