#ren

Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#free-will #life #recipe #life

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#perfectionism #self #self-awareness #souls #life

And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#hana #lauren-oliver #lena #life

Never judge yourself so harshly that you never arise from the ashes of life. ↗

— Shawntel Jefferson

#renewal #spiritual #life

Is there anyone’s life story you don’t want to know?” “Not really.” His expression was unexpectedly serious. “Because people make a story of their lives. Gains, losses, tragedy and triumph—you can tell a lot about someone simply by what they put into each category. You can learn a lot about what you put into each category by your reaction to them. They teach you about yourself without ever intending to do it—and they teach you a lot about life. ↗

— Michelle Sagara West

#life #rennick #story #life

Love can grown among the rocks and thorns of life. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#karen-marie-moning #love #life

Ah, ka-lyrra, I look at you and you make me want to live a man's life with you. To wake with you and sleep with you, argue with you and make love with you, to get a silly human job and take walks in the park and live so tiny beneath such a vast sky. But I will never stay with another human woman and water her die. Never. --FROM THE (GREATLY REVISED) BLACK EDITION OF THE O'CALLAGHAN Book of the Sin Siriche Du ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#book-of-the-sin-siriche-du #gabby #karen-marie-moning #love #sad

it is madness in al women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#pride #women-s-strength #life

Who are these people sharing the street with me? What is going on in their worlds, inside their heads? Are they in love? If so, is it the kind that Mum and Dad have? Based on having things in common, like raspberry picking and a love of dogs, and Shakespeare, and long country walks? Or is it the knock-you-out, eat-you-up, set-you-on-fire kind of love that I have longed for-and avoided-all my life? ↗

— Alison Larkin

#love #parents #people #raspberries #shakespeare

We all know that parents do not make children but that children make parents…Authentic parenting is one long sacrificial act…parenting reveals the way that sacrifice at once diminishes our life as we knew it…while at the same time revealing to us larger and infinitely more fascinating forms of life…Parents know experientially that the very process which makes them suffer also makes them grow. ↗

— Luke Timothy Johnson

#life