#ow

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#ignorance #narrowness #selfishness #life

I've found that no matter what life throws at me, music softens the blow. ↗

— Bryce W. Anderson

#music #power-of-music #life

You are my life, but you are not my purpose. ↗

— Nina Malkin

#life

life is tough but its tougher when you're stupid ↗

— John Wayne

#knowledge #stupidity #wisdom #life

Divorce is the second worst event in a person’s life. The worst event, of course, is marriage. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#event #horrible #life #marriage #painful

But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?" (Aragorn about Eowyn, in the Houses of Healing) ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#eowyn #life

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#celebrating-life #enjoyment #flow #gratitude #inner-peace

I ask God to bind my life to your life so that my mind will be one with your mind," I repeat the words Phaedrus says while I gaze at Reed and hold his hand. "My heart may be one with your heart," I recite it with a small smile on my face, "and my body may be one with your body," I blush a little when I say this part, seeing desire register in Reed's eyes. "From this moment through eternity, so let it be. ↗

— Amy A. Bartol

#reed #vows #life

I’ve noticed in my life that the people who act as my angels are not some strange angelic creatures that seem almost untouchable, but are more real than that. They are people who have tasted sorrow, who have felt pain, and in a way, that makes them capable of being an angel. In their darkest moments they have become strong. ↗

— The Hippie

#sorrow #strength-through-adversity #life

Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #motivational #words #life