#pre

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#depression #fear #life #speaking #words

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition. ↗

— Kimi Raikkonen

#been #choice #easy #i #impressed

...being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then someone came along and showed me there was a door in the room. One that I'd never even seen before. Then he opened it for me. Held my hand as I walked through it. And for one perfect day, I was on the other side. I was somewhere else. Someone else. And then he was gone, and I was thrown back into my little room. And now, no matter what I do, I can't seem to find that door. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#heartbreak #loss #sadness #life

George!' [Horace] said, the relief evident in his voice. 'Are you all right?' 'No! I am not!' George replied with considerable spirit. 'I have a whacking great arrow stuck through my arm and it hurts like the very dickens! How could anybody be all right in those circumstances?'... 'You saved my life, George,' Horace said gently... George grimaced. 'Well, if I'd known it was going to hurt like this, I wouldn't have! I would have just let them shoot you! Why do you live this way?' he demanded in a high-pitched voice. 'How can you bear it? This sort of thing is very, very painful. I always suspected that warriors are crazy. Now I know. ↗

— John Flanagan

#ranger-s-apprentice #life

The world isn’t perfect, and some days it wears you down. You can either accept that, and face it, and be a help to others instead of a hindrance. Or you can decide the rules are too tough and they shouldn’t apply to you, and you can ignore them and make things harder for everybody else. Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it’s about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn’t perfection. The point is doing it anyway. ↗

— Chloe Neill

#depression #hope #life #moving-on #life

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#deep #impression #leave #thousand #thousand words

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#australia #commuting #england #had #i

Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#garden #gardening #nature #nonconformity #preservation

I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and what later came to be recognized and diagnosed as depression. ↗

— Sharon E. Rainey

#desperation #silence #life

The river is everywhere. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life #omnipresence #river #life