#om

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom... ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#death #england #london #suburbia #death

There wasn't a single item of importance [in the newspaper]. A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangerous house of glass, scarcely to be handled carelessly. But everyday life was exactly like the headlines. And so everybody, knowing the meaninglessness of existence, sets the centre of his compass at his own home. ↗

— Kōbō Abe

#home #life #news #life

There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#edna-pontellier #fiction #romance #life

If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#past #present-moment #life

Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkin? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene. ↗

— N. D. Wilson

#inspirational #life #tolkien #freedom

I'm not an architectural composer. ↗

— Harrison Birtwistle

#composer #i

Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself. ↗

— Elizabeth I Tudor

#living #working #life

The only thing you should be faking is confidence. If you don't have it yet, pretend that you do. Pretend you're not nervous, pretend you're not scared, and after a while, the pretend part disappears. ↗

— Patricia V. Davis

#women-s-empowerment #life

Justin Bieber and I are going to get married some day. I also like Tom Cruise. He's very classy. ↗

— Bar Refaeli

#classy #cruise #day #get #get married