#on

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. ↗

— John Green

#imagination

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#life #inspirational

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#life #loneliness #life

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#christopher-paolini #eragon #good-reads #life

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. ↗

— Mark Twain

#life #life

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. ↗

— Donald Miller

#people #perfection #relationships #life

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#passion #war #life

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #passion #life

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#defeat #humanity #life #life

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#marriage #silence #talk #life