#on

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#buddhism #life-truths #truth #truth-of-life #life

For the man in the paddock, whose duty is is to sweep up manure, the supreme terror is the possibility of a world without horses. To tell him that it is disgusting to spend one’s life shoveling up hot turds is a piece of imbecility. A man can get to love shit if his livelihood depends on it, if his happiness is involved. ↗

— Henry Miller

#money #work #life

Daddy had only just got into bed when, from the next room, a small voice called, "Hello?" "What do you want?" Daddy demanded, perhaps a trifle less patiently than usual. There came a long silence. Then from a sleepy child came the reply, "I don't want anything 'cept I just want to know somebody is there." That is the cry of million of hearts, millions who feel they can manage along through life as long as there is someone to share it with. ↗

— Francis Gay

#life #scared #share #son #life

This was real life, not a book. And in real life, people met, nothing happened, and you went home. Or they went o� to Egypt and told you that they weren’t a commitment kind of guy after six years. That was real life. Not a guy like Marc. Or the marquis. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#life

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#education

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#life

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~ ↗

— Susan Wiggs

#life-lessons #motherhood #mothering #experience

The bottom line is: if you were a jerk in your original life, you're probably going to be a bigger undead jerk, If you were a decent person, say a juvenile-services librarian with a secret collection of unicorn figurines, you're probably going to be a kinder, gentler vampire. ↗

— Molly Harper

#molly-harper #nice-girls-don-t-have-fangs #unicorns #life

The rules of life are nothing that cannot be fixed. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#poetry #poetry-quotes #life

Doing risk sport had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. ↗

— Yvon Chouinard

#on-the-edge #risk #education