#pi

Shanna, sweet Shanna. How can I tell you what you mean to me? When I saw you at the ball it was as if my heart started beating again. You lit up the room, bright in an ocean of black and white. And I thought- my life has been nothing but a dark, endless night. Then you came out like a rainbow and filled my black soul with color. ↗

— Kerrelyn Sparks

#romantic #sweet #vampire #life

You gotta be in the NOW to create and experience the WOW! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#experience #inspirational #motivationalr #now #seize-the-day

The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship. ↗

— Epicurus

#friendship #life #soul #wisdom #friendship

In every man, there is a child. In every woman, there is a mother. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#inspirational #life #science #inspirational

I want a tutor,” Layla said. “It would make doing homework so much easier.” “Me too,” said Kaitlyn. “If Layla gets one, I get one.” “No daughter of mine will ever have a tutor,” Dad said. “What if we’re failing a course?” asked Layla. His graying eyebrows drew together. “If you fail a single course, young lady, we will pull you out of school and get you a job scrubbing toilets for the rest of your life. ↗

— Claire LaZebnik

#epic-fail #layla #life

You can't lead a true life without suffering ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#inspirational

Oh no, real life is escape. The great terrors, the horrors--we hope--of your life come from reading fiction. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#fiction #on-fiction #life

Where is miracle? None they can’t see. Where is hope? I only see light on the sea. ↗

— Salman Aditya

#inspirational-life #life #inspirational

We seldom consider how much of our lives we must render in return for some object we barely want, seldom need, buy only because it was put before us...And this is understandable given the workings of our system where without a job we perish, where if we don't want a job and are happy to get by we are labeled irresponsible, non-contributing leeches on society. But if we hire a fleet of bulldozers, tear up half the countryside and build some monstrous factory, casino or mall, we are called entrepreneurs, job-creators, stalwarts of the community. Maybe we should all be shut away on some planet for the insane. Then again, maybe that is where we are. ↗

— Ferenc Máté

#consumerism #sanity #life

But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal ↗

— Katherine Applegate

#inspirational #humor