#living

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

Life is a constant balancing act, and keeping your balance is not always possible. The better you prepare yourself, the better your chances of regaining your balance when you lose it. ↗

— Walter C. Conner

#life

Kada smo u kontaktu sa drugim čovekom, mi mu ili pomažemo ili smetamo. Nema trećeg: ili ga vučemo na dole, ili ga izvlačimo na površinu. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#life

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form. p 259 ↗

— Rachel Naomi Remen

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Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#travel #life

Govore mi da sam mlada i da ću događanja prihvatiti kad odrastem. ↗

— Jasna Horvat

#life-and-living #life

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. ↗

— Uncle Remus

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