#rise

God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

#life #roller-coaster #surprises #life

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#surprises #life

It's shocking the things we call love. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #mistakes #surprise #life

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#belief #broadcast #fill #hardly #horror

Stand up! Don't ever give up on this bitchy life. Feel afraid is okay, but don't avoid competition. You've done that thing even since you're a sperm. You accept this and you are the surviving winner. ↗

— Toba Beta

#rise #shine #survive #life

I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

#candle #even #i #immediately #know

Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music. ↗

— John Sebastian

#bands #because #bunch #could #evidence

Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#cerise #ilona-andrews #life #the-edge #life

All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #surprises #life

High in the hazy sky, the snowfkakes looked tiny and all alike, but as they drifted past the narrow window of the sewing room, all were unique - long or round or triangular - as if they'd borrowed their shapes from the clouds they'd come from. ↗

— Ursula Hegi

#life-in-small-german-town #rise-of-nazis #life