#rut

My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfilment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it. Had a fairy come and offered to fulfil my desires I should not have known what to ask. If in moments of intoxication I felt something which, though not a wish, was a habit left by former wishes, in sober moments I knew this to be a delusion and that there was really nothing to wish for. I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guess of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#desire #inspirational-quotes #meaning #truth #inspirational

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money [not for purpose or passion]- has turned himself into a slave. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#life

Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #truth #life

Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths... The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he's been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that... But the second kind, they show you life more like it is... The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#lies #life #matt #mattie #stories

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out. ↗

— Sophie Kinsella

#resilience #ruins #truth #life

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself. ↗

— Tawni O'Dell

#life

Once you gave a thing a name, you gave it life. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life

Fake sUCKs! ↗