#livin

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life

It is madness. And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity. It's the same with self-loathing. You're probably just normal and normal-looking but that's not a real identity, not the way ugliness is. Normality, just accepting that you're probably normal-looking, lacks the force field of self-disgust. If you don't know who you are, madness gives you something to believe in. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#life-and-living #life

The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life #living #quality-of-life #time #life

Make sure your Belief system leaves room for you to Be Life! ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life

The question isn't "Why do we die?" The question is "Why do we live? ↗

— S.M. Reine

#life

There would be a lot fewer of us screwing up the game of life so brilliantly, if there was always a right answer instead of just a best--or even a less bad--answer. ↗

— Claire Cross

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

Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#life

Do you think it will always be this way?" "What?" "I mean, when do we start feeling like the world belongs to us?" I wanted to tell him that the world would never belong to us. "I don't know," I said. "Tomorrow. ↗

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

#life

You only live once. But if you live your life right, once can mean everything! ↗

— Lorii Myers

#life

I was trying to help... The more I try to catch up, the farther I fall behind. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#life