#nit

And yet I cannot be myself. You teach me all these things and then you put me here to pretend to be something I am not, while she is center stage, doing exactly what she does. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#life

I am happy for the first in my life, I can report that I am standing on an incline instead of an edge. ↗

— Erica Goros

#life-humor #living-life-to-the-fullest #making-it #sanity #life

Become a good noticer. Pay attention to the feelings, hunches, and intuitions that flood your life each day. If you do, you will see that premonitions are not rare, but a natural part of our lives. ↗

— Larry Dossey

#esp #premonition #wisdom #life

Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best. ↗

— Eric Liddell

#life

The happy life is this - to rejoice to thee, in thee, and for thee. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#life

When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#confessional #god #hope #life

Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the gap between what his characters might like to accomplish and what fate provides them. ↗

— Nate Silver

#life

Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #human #humanity #life #paranormal-romance

I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#individuals #love #mankind #love

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#heroism #love