#others

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#make-a-difference #purpose #purpose-of-life #life

I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#death #glbtq #life #love #death

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#only #others #prosperity #seen #some

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#doing #easily #find #genius #impossible

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone. ↗

— Tori Amos

#everything #just #mothers #shatter #start

Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others. ↗

— Namie Amuro

#closest friend #different #even #finished #friend

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. ↗

— Ethel Percy Andrus

#essential #giving #human #ingredient #live

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#elizabeth #grandmothers #i #julia #named

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#given #god #how #much #need

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#love #men #mothers #respect #their