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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. ↗

— Jack London

#meteor #life

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life. ↗

— Roger Caras

#dog #least #life #may #necessarily

the road is life ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#motto #life

Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#emmett #life

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#life #perfect #perfection #something-wicked-this-way-comes #life

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#expectations #go #live #out #remarkable

Everybody's damaged by something. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#everybody #life #room #sad #something

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves. ↗

— Ethel Percy Andrus

#besides #direct #drives #happiness #inner

Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use the good passport, sooner or later each of use is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#metaphor #life

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#every #life #measure #sometimes #sorrow