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I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it—no shortcuts and no anesthesia. ↗

— Michele Bardsley

#grief #journey #life #life

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations. ↗

— Sebastian Horsley

#happiness-life #unhappiness #life

he’s seen enough to know that you can’t kill all the badness in the world. You cut it down in front of you only to find that it's standing right behind you. ↗

— Moira Young

#laine-s-fave #life #life

I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy. ↗

— Deborah Harkness

#individuality #life #simplicity #life

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#want #you #yourself

...some people might think our lives dull and uneventful, but it does not seem so to us. ...it is not travel and adventure that make a full life. There are adventures of the spirit and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. One need ever be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings. ↗

— D.E. Stevenson

#life

Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story. ↗

— Horacio Quiroga

#writing #life

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it. ↗

— Taylor Mali

#learning #lessons #life #education

(...)best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life! ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#life-lessons #humor

When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it. ↗

— Peter McWilliams

#incomplete #life #past #self #life