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The gold of life is for those bold and brave in life. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#author #book #gold #higherlife #ifeanyi

A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#life #star #life

An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful reading of the best books. The habit of reading good books is one that gives great comfort in all the stages and among all the vicissitudes of life. The man who has learned to love good reading is never alone. His friends are the great ones of human history, and to them he may always go for stimulating and helpful communion. --GQ 71 (GQ is A Guide for Quorums of the Melchizedek Priesthood, 3rd Edition, 1930) ↗

— John Andreas Widtsoe

#life

Inexplicably, I felt drops of icy sweat dripping up my back. I am aware that icy and sweat are contradictory by their very nature and should not be able to coexist in the same freakish bead of ICK WHAT IS THAT falling up my back. I am also aware things are not supposed to fall up. For that matter, criminals aren’t supposed to get it on with crimefighters. Yet here we were: Catwoman, Batman, icy, sweat, dripping, up. Sometimes life is like that. ↗

— Chris Dee

#irony #life

I have more wisdom than any books ever written in history of times, any scripture ever written which you rhyme but this is not my purpose. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

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It is the transience of life which proves its inestimable worth. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#thought-provoking #thoughts-on-life #life

She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes and smokes on the street corner, though she may be a joy to all who know her and have devoted her life to charity, could never qualify as a lady. ↗

— Judith Martin

#miss-manners #smoking #life

There are a lot of writers, but only one YOU. ↗

— Pandora Gray

#life #reading #writing #life

But most of all books (I say again and again) are like the Thirty-Mile Woman from Toni Morrison's Beloved: 'She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.' ~ Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer Prize novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. ↗

— Leah Price

#life

I want, I want, I want... At this point I'm just a mass of seething wants, but what I want I'm not really sure of. (Like going to the fridge, and opening it, letting all the cold air out...and not knowing what it is you want to eat. You stand with the door open hoping that something will you inspire you.) I'm standing with the door open at the fridge of life, and I want. ↗

— Joanne Horniman

#secret-scribbled-notebooks #inspirational