#ma

You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose. ↗

— Lisa Cach

#strong #woman #life

my dragon? save anybody? you must have have him confused with someone else- Smaug perhaps?... ↗

— Margaret Weis

#smaug #zifnab #death

May all that have life be delivered from suffering ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#kindness #life #life

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#human-nature #life #life

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet, ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#life #intelligence

As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe. ↗

— Libba Bray

#crazy #imagination #quick-plot-summary #death

There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#edna-pontellier #fiction #romance #life

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#about #film #idea #make #usually

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#jack #ma #thoughts-on-life #life

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#life #life