#los

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life-lessons #loss #life

When people say they hate life, to what are they comparing it to? The alternative isn't any more appealing. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#philosophy-of-life #philosphy #philsophical-thought #life

The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. The finite within the infinite, the infinite within the finite. ↗

— Yann Martel

#philosophical #life

Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers. ↗

— Robert James Graves

#epitaph #fed #fevers #give #gone

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own? ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#philosphy #life

manusia mungkin tidak punya kapasitas untuk mengampuni (barangkali hanya Tuhan yang bisa mengampuni), maka yang bisa kita lakukan adalah berdamai. Berdamai dengan sisi gelap yang tak bisa kita kuasai ↗

— Ayu Utami

#life

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#life #loss #life

... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back. ↗

— Ki Longfellow

#divine-consciousness #divinity #life #philosophy #life

There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent. ↗

— Aleksandar Hemon

#life #loss-of-control #moments #life

Call no man happy until he is dead. ↗

— Solon

#happiness #history #philosophy #the-good-life #life