#ma

The happiest people don’t bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have. ↗

— Andrew Matthews

#happiness #happiness-in-hard-times #life

It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved. ↗

— Jeff Ament

#going #hard #information #involved #much

The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way. ↗

— Tara Brach

#intimacy #kindness #listening #truth #vulnerability

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#land #life #matter #silence #life

We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it. ↗

— Allen Steele

#life

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays. ↗

— Mark Twain

#education #maturity #nostalgia #education

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#magic #stage #life

Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#life

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#difference #do the right thing #i #just #just be

Sometimes i think you were a dolphin in a previous life, ↗

— Ben M. Baglio

#life