#on

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life. ↗

— David Ignatow

#man #life

Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#wuthering-heights #life

there are times when life's ends are so raveled that reason and sense cry out that we stop and gather them together again before we can proceed ↗

— Richard Wright

#life

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation. ↗

— Walter Scott

#life

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble. ↗

— Sam Keen

#clinging #codependency #dysfunctional-relationship #howard-thurman #manhood

Suffering is a part of real life lesson. ↗

— Toba Beta

#lesson #life #part #real #suffering

Patience, grasshoper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'good things come to those who do the wave'," said Simon. "No wonder I've been confused all my life. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#simon-lewis #life

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#attachment #belonging #future #home #homelessness

When the flames of life are gnawing away at your butt, run faster, quicker, and harder than you've ever run before, because I guarantee it that life will condition you, harder than any trainer ever will. When you state to yourself with the utter most believe, “I will achieve this,” than you are on the path, and this is when life throws obstacles left, right, straight on and which other way, but keep going. Because you will make it ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#inspirational

Trovo la televisione molto educativa. Ogni volta che qualcuno la accende, vado in biblioteca e leggo un buon libro. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#life