#ow

Largeness is a lifelong matter,” he wrote. “. . . You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn’t, its teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you’re large because you can’t stand to be small. ↗

— William Stegner

#life #life

In una parola, ero troppo codardo per fare quello che sapevo essere giusto, così come ero stato troppo codardo per evitare di fare quello che sapevo sbagliato. A quel tempo, non avevo avuto nessuna esperienza del mondo e non imitavo nessuno dei suoi molti abitanti che agiscono in questo modo. Genio assolutamente naturale, scoprii questa linea di condotta tutto da solo. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#growth #italiano #life #morality #pip

While it is relatively easy to recognize the perennial grasses and seed-eating sparrows as characteristic of meadows, the ecosystems exist in their fullest sense underground. What we see aboveground is only the outer margin of an ecosystem that explodes in intricacy and life below. ↗

— Amy Seidl

#meadows #soil #life

High in the hazy sky, the snowfkakes looked tiny and all alike, but as they drifted past the narrow window of the sewing room, all were unique - long or round or triangular - as if they'd borrowed their shapes from the clouds they'd come from. ↗

— Ursula Hegi

#life-in-small-german-town #rise-of-nazis #life

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain ↗

— Tony-Paul de Vissage

#knowledge #learning #life #mark-twain #life

The most special times in a person's life are not meant to last forever. They're like bubbles rising from a plastic ring dipped into a soapy solution. The soap bubbles rise, with the sun flashing brilliant colors, then bursts into a showery memory mist. ↗

— Julius Thompson

#brooklyn #brownstone #ghost #philly #profille

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies. ↗

— Vera B. Williams

#growing-up #life

I am a horror movie buff, man. In real life, I am proudly an official coward. ↗

— Cameron Jace

#life

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. ↗

— John le Carre

#become #cheat #childhood #detachment #ever

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#healing #new-beginnings #spirituality #unknown #life