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Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#adversity #easy #effort #envy #lives

We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#give #moment #life

These are the days that must happen to you. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#live-life #life

But...If my life on Earth must end, let it end with a promise. Let it end with hope. ↗

— Beth Revis

#amy #beth-revis #elder #life

Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#karma #life #life

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#luke-garroway #simon-lewis #life

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need. ↗

— Heidi W. Durrow

#life #soul #women #life

You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#self-worth #women #life

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#life #simile #life

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. ↗

— George Eliot

#music #power-of-music #life