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It isn’t a perfect place. There are no perfect places. But nobody cares about perfection when there are sand castles to build and kites to chase, children that are being born, old hearts that are giving in. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#life #poetic-fiction #inspirational

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#fear #responsibility #violence #vulnerability #life

Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory. ↗

— Sarah Kay

#hands #life #past #story #life

Creation and destruction are the two ends of the same moment. And everything between the creation and the next destruction is the journey of life. ↗

— Amish Tripathi

#philosophy #life

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#enemies-and-opposition #life

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#escape #literature #reading #words #life

I hate it when people make fun of me and it turns out they're right. ↗

— Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#people #so-true #things-that-happen #life

When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life. ↗

— Laura Teresa Marquez

#life-and-living #patience #life

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life. ↗

— Paul Celan

#poetry #life

It's easy to talk big, but the important thing is whether or not you clean up the shit. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #shit #talking #truth #life