#long

Long week. Long month. Long life. ↗

— John Green

#long #life

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#in-the-long-run #what-counts #life

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#alone #belonging #jonah #life #lois-lowry

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

How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing there was no end. ↗

— Allegra Goodman

#longing #life

I found that I missed him the more he was absent from my life, and the more I missed him, the more I loved him. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#long-distance-relationships #life

To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#anomie #belonging #the-true-believer #life

Sometimes in your life you will go on a journey. It will be the longest journey you have ever taken. It is the journey to find yourself. ↗

— Katherine Sharp

#journey-of-life #long-journey #life

Of course he had committed forgery;--of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#carbury #crumb #hurtle #longstaffe #montague

Distance is nothing when you are something. ↗

— Zarry Hendrik

#long-distance #love #life