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❤ Without peace in your life....what good is anything else?✌ ↗

— Timothy Pina

#legend-of-the-peace-panda #life

The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living. Only when we are in the midst of conflict does the shallowness and vapidness of much of our lives become apparent. Trivia dominates our conversations and increasingly our airwaves. And war is an enticing elixir. It gives us resolve, a cause. It allows us to be noble. And those who have the least meaning in their lives, the impoverished refugees in Gaza, the disenfranchised North African immigrants in France, even the legions of young who live in the splendid indolence and safety of the industrialized world, are all susceptible to war's appeal. ↗

— Chris Hedges

#meaning #politics #purpose-of-life #war #life

The harsh reality will be the fear that has always been at the back of your mind coming to play right in front of your eyes ↗

— Tshepang Sharon Koji

#separation #life

TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in a while she would blaze through the house and clean everything--at which point, the process would start all over. ↗

— Erica Bauermeister

#cleaning #nature-of-things #toys #life

Une lutte qui semble perdue, est la plus excitante. ↗

— Jacques Tardi

#french #interesting #life #life-lesson #life-lessons

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass. Your life story would not make a good book. Do not even try. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#why-i-shouldn-t-write #life

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me? ↗

— John Green

#colin-singleton #john-green #love

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #lost #love #love

Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ↗

— Sarah Cross

#love #real-love #sarah-cross #unrequited-love #love

When you love someone, you don't have a choice. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-ashes #clary-and-luke #clary-fray #love #love