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Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier. ↗

— Frank Delaney

#life #perseverance #the-matchmaker-of-kenmare #life

The essential truth of life, he was coming to realize, wasn't romantic an took only two words to label: Shit. Happens. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#truth-of-life #life

How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#sci-fi #the-left-hand-of-darkness #life

The end is not the reward; the path you take, the emotions that course through you as you grasp life - that is the reward. ↗

— Jamie Magee

#reward #life

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#philosophy-of-life #reading #life

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

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Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least. ↗

— Goethe

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God and Destiny are not against us, rather they are for us, they are the ones who never forget the things we have long forgotten, the ones who hear the desires of our heart that our own heads can't hear, and they are the ones who never forget who we really are, long after our minds have forgotten the images of who we are. We come from God and we belong to Destiny, yet for some reason of ignorance we think that to be the master of our own fates and the captain of our own souls means to write everything down on a paper and plan everything out on a grid! Such great things to be done, and we think they are accomplished by our primitive ways! No. We must only know what we want. And want what we want. And then fly high enough to see all that which we want that we couldn't yet see. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#destiny #flying #flying-spirit #god #inspirational

Back in the time when life was easy, the Internet would have told me what I needed to know. The great thing about the Internet was it didn't care why you were asking. ↗

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

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I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

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