#po

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#layover #life #living #poetry #life

Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#poetry #tragedy #life

The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#life #pleasure #life

London is on the whole the most possible form of life. ↗

— Henry James

#city-life #life #london #metropolis #life

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#animal-cruelty #animal-kindness #animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals

(I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life, marvelous so marvelous like eating cold olives at 3 am with half the town on fire) ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#generation #next #next election #politician #statesman

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#depression #efforts #entails #fear #fools

You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life ... He said there is no in-between with an innocent client. No negotiation, no plea bargain, no middle ground. There's only one verdict. You have to put an NG up on the scoreboard. There's no other verdict but not guilty." Levin nodded thoughtfully. "The bottom line was my old man was a damn good lawyer and he didn't like having innocent clients," I said. "I'm not sure I do, either. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#criminal-law #fear #guilt #innocence #justice

Your purpose is your why. ↗

— Deborah Day

#purpose #purpose-in-life #values #life