#nin

What's the meaning of life? Other people. ↗

— John Green

#the-meaning-of-life #life

I guess that’s the thing about riding on cloud nine—it can’t last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast. ↗

— Hannah Harrington

#fall #happiness #life #life

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#life #luck #make-it-happen #success #winning

I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#shadowfever #life

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#nature #trees #education

You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believed in God. I told you of course I do- I've always had a strong sense of self. Your house is quiet now, you're sleeping upstairs and I'm alone with this blasted, idiotic book that purports to tally the sum of my life, and fact is, maybe I do. But maybe, ka-lyrra, your God doesn't believe in me. -- From The (Greatly Revised) Black Edition Of The O'Callaghan Book of the Sin Siriche Du ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#immortal-highlander #karen-marie-moning #sin-siriche-du #life

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#honey #meaning-of-life #life

On my resume I have an awards category. It has one entry. It is the highlight of my life. I’m not trying to impress you or make you overly jealous. I’m merely documenting. OK, so maybe I am gloating a bit. Here it is, exactly as it appears on my resume. “Awards: I won third place in the 100-yard dash in the fourth grade. I still carry around my green ribbon with me wherever I go. The ribbon is available for authenticity inspection upon request, and my fourth grade PE coach’s phone number can also be provided to corroborate the validity of my claim.”
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— Jarod Kintz

#award #awards #category #claim #coach

As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the question of the meaning of life may actually be reversed. Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible. Thus, logotherapy sees in responsibleness the very essence of human existence. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#inspirational #life #logotherapy #meaning #responsibility