#of

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago. ↗

— Brodi Ashton

#reading-books #truth-of-life #life

It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner there whether you wanted it or not. It gave you an indecent advantage over the past and made you a clown vis-a-vis the future. ↗

— Daniel Kehlmann

#life

I blinked deliberately, expecting my eyelids to act like lumberjacks. But the trees would not fall. ↗

— Yann Martel

#of #pi #life

Most doctors are prisoners of their education and shackled by their profession. ↗

— Richard Diaz

#education #prison #profession #education

Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.” {Source: A Green Desert Father} ↗

— Richard Mc Sweeney

#esoteric #fashion #freedom-of-thought #ireland #irish-poet

I think that the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#life

Don't profane yourself, or the Biodag Dubh." Oh, Mary Ann. Me and the Beedak Doo are just fine. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#humor #humor

If you listen quietly enough life will whisper its secrets to you ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#life #life-lessons-lessons #rasheed-ogunlaru #secrets-of-the-universe #secrets-to-happiness

We do not want to comprehend that people may and do die of emotional pain, or to recognize the terror in ourselves when we cannot seem to help someone in despair -- when our words are empty. ↗

— Jill Bialosky

#jill-bialosky #page- #life

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it. ↗

— Asa Gray

#am #anyone #better #calling #convinced