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And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you’re poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same. ↗

— Sue Miller

#life #life

Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind...We behold the face of nature bright with gladness...We do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects and seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#life

Life starts with love and ends with love. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life

The best way to predict your future is to create it. ↗

— Peter F. Drucker

#life-quotes #motivational-quotes #inspirational

That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time. ↗

— Euripides

#poetry #life

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced. ↗

— Henry Adams

#speech #education

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man which it forms. If it injures the intelligence, it is bad; if it injures the character, it is vicious; if it injures the conscience, it is criminal. ↗

— Amiel

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#paganism #life

The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive. ↗

— Toba Beta

#instinct #life #spirit #survival-of-the-fittest #life

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#life #work #life