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You should not confuse your career with your life. ↗

— Dave Barry

#work #life

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#luke-garroway #simon-lewis #life

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. ↗

— George Eliot

#music #power-of-music #life

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#common-sense #offshore-drilling #public-education #united-states #education

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#fears #reality-of-life #life

My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren’t glitter, well, that only left one other option. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#irony-of-life #life

Now you will feel no rain, For each of you will be shelter to the other. Now you will feel no cold, For each of you will be warmth to the other. Now there is no more loneliness for you. For each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two bodies, But there is only one life before you. ↗

— R.K. Lilley

#life

You don't get it, Clary. You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up- ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-glass #isabelle-lightwood #life #mortal-instruments #sacrifice

Outsiders often have an insight that an insider doesn't quite have. ↗

— Diane Abbott

#insight #often #outsiders #quite

I believe that I am not responsible for the meaningfulness or meaninglessness of life, but that I am responsible for what I do with the life I've got. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#meaning-of-life #life