#rug

Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot. It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time. ↗

— Allan Wolf

#struggle #wisdom #marriage

Sophie swallowed, tears rising to her eyes again. It was an odd legacy to hand from mother to daughter: the ability to stand proud among the ruins of one's marriage. ↗

— Eloisa James

#marriage

Saat jarum jam dinding berputar ke kiri, orang akan menganggapnya rusak dan membuangnya. Manusia pun tidak boleh menengok ke belakang, terus maju dan maju, melangkah ke depan! ↗

— Yoshichi Shimada

#life-lesson #maju #manusia #semangat #struggle

Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#egotism #men #struggle #men

Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#love #struggle #inspirational

Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue, Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless And it isn't for you. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#drugs #inspirational #memorable #perversion #poetry

To me, love was a drug. Jett was my drug. ↗

— J.C. Reed

#inspirational #love #relationship #romance #inspirational

Struggle shapes our character. And character dictates what we will become. ↗

— Jeff Goins

#motivational #struggle #inspirational

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#narcotics #men

We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#ayn-rand #individualism #objectivism #rational-egoism #men