#on

You never came out the way you came in. ↗

— Francis Spufford

#inspirational

Anticipation is sometimes more exciting than actual events. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#life #quote #life

When you get mad, it's the time you lose ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#lose #mad #patience #life

I wish the army had taught us how to navigate feelings as easily as they did a starless night sky. ↗

— Sherri L. Smith

#life-lessons #life

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#love #education

I'm not trying to tell you," he said "that only educated men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so. But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they're brilliant and creative to begin with--which, unfortunately, is rarely the case--tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are MEREly brilliant and creative. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#education #wisdom #education

...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#hope #missions #resurrection #life

This is a story about survival. Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life. The things left unsaid... ↗

— Nadège Richards

#letting-go #life #moving-on #moving-on-and-letting-go #survival-story

Our life is one, big proverbial coin toss. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#ian-somerhalder #julie-plec #tv-show #tvd #life

Let every man be master of his time. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#life #self-determination #time #life