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There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that. ↗

— John Burnham Schwartz

#philosophy #time #vision #whimsy #life

In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author’s life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well, the poet is not writing characters so much as emotional truth wrapped in metaphor. Bam! Pow! A shot to the gut. ↗

— Jane Yolen

#emotion #fiction #poems #poetry #reading

Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes. ↗

— John le Carré

#circumspection #husbands #marriage #married-life #separation

When I was an addict, It was either I chose to beg or steal, I did both. When You sober up, your past can be a reminder of what you can be if you relapse or it can be a sign of hope to the ones still using, the latter gives me reason to wake up. When the honeymoon is over, its either you get depressed by the amount of work required to build yourself up, or you can forge a new life and set new goals and dreams, for me, its the new life and dreams that fuel me ↗

— simon mosia ramagaga

#choices #dreams-inspirational #recorvery #dreams

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#already #attempt #aware #events #fear

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#choice #dream #fate #goals #inspiration

Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#fate #thoughts-on-life #life

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#empowerment #feminism #gender #history #independence

People may laugh at what I do but am not perturbed. My work is to add value to lives. I will keep living my dreams so that by the time my mortal body may stop working, I will remain immortally relevant to generations to come. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#dream #goal #higherlife-coach #ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #vision

To succeed in everything we do, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think are impossible. ↗

— Ellen J. Barrier

#dreams #succeed #dreams