#livin

Life is difficult. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#life #living #mentation #purpose #purposeful

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real. ↗

— Carrie Vaughn

#life-and-living #truth #truth-of-life #truthful #life

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#life

The hardest thing is being with other people - it's like they're on a different wavelenght, but only you know it. They talk about their lives and what's wrong with them, and you kind of, like, just let them go. It's a whole different language, and you've got to remember that you can only respond in their mother tongue. It's really hard to relate. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#life #life-and-living #life-lessons #relationship #life

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. ↗

— John Piper

#god #purpose #life

Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#life-in-your-years #living #unlived-life #years #life

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#construction #importance-of-existence #life #living #life

The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#innovation #life-long-learning #living-life #open-mindedness #opportunity

A man approaching retirement called the retirement office to inquire about his pension. Afterward, he was asked if his wife worked. “She’s worked all her life making me happy”, he replied. “Yes sir, but has she earned money to receive her pension?” “When we got married we agreed on an arrangement”, he said. “I would earn the living, and she would make the living worthwhile”. “Make the living worthwhile”…have we forgotten the very essence of that? Have we forgotten to live for someone else, that doing so IS what makes a living worthwhile? ↗

— Kelly Crawford

#living #marriage #retirement #life

There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#joy #life