#om

That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life #life

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#existence #life #value #life

Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#life-wisdom #life

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#could #i #life #live #mind

Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#life

She touched something deep in his soul. He didn't believe in love at first sight, but the thought of hurting her made his chest ache. ↗

— Jodie B. Cooper

#love #paranormal-romance #sidhi #soul-mate #teen

What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or rather, you will retrace your steps through time, through all the days and nights, myths and years of your life, until you go out through the great, round, silver gate you entered by." What will I find on the other side?" The home of the music you've sometimes faintly heard in the distance, but by then you'll be part of it. You yourself will be a note in its mighty harmonies. ↗

— Michael Ende

#life

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#love #truth #wisdom #life

The waitress had the appearance of a very old hooker who had finally found her place in life ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#hooker #hunter #loathing #thompson #waitress

May a man live well-enough and long-enough, to leave many joyful widows behind him. ↗

— Roman Payne

#men #pleasure #polygamy #roman-payne #widows