#rut

There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#naruto #pace #patience #shikamaru-nara #time

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be... ↗

— Bob Dylan

#life #truth #life

I hate when people say 'I see'. It doesn't mean anything and I think it's hostile. Whenever anyone tells me 'I see' I think they're really saying 'Fuck you'. ↗

— Peter Cameron

#life #truth #humor

Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#life

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#dog #love #relationship #romance #truth

Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#difficult #fight #greatest #life #lose

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#purpose #truth #life

Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That’s what makes us humans. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#masashi-kishimoto #naruto #life

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#life #people #things #truth #life

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#truth #life