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So afterward, while I was getting eviscerated by chemo, for some reason I decided to feel really hopeful. Not about survival but I felt like Anna does in the book, that feeling of excitement and gratitude about just being able to marvel at it all. ↗

— John Green

#life #life

They are so caught up in their happiness that they don't realize I'm not really a part of it. I am wandering along the periphery. I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood. . . . There are moments I just sit in my frame, float in my tank, ride in my car and say nothing, think nothing that connects me to anything at all. ↗

— David Levithan

#loneliness #misunderstood #not-belonging #peripheral #unnoticed

And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#j-r-r-tolkien #marriage #rosie-cotton #sam #the-lord-of-the-rings

Sometimes in life, the happy ending unfolds, not through circumstances, but from what we learn from those circumstances. ↗

— Leila Summers

#life

Maybe it's important to open up I people- people who are right there with you, not some thousand miles away in another universe. Or maybe it's something else. Maybe I should just settle for not knowing. Maybe it's just good to know that you're not the only one who doesn't know. ↗

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

#inspirational #life #relationships #friendship

We've all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#self-examination #life

...I want to live doubly - first with you and then afterwards in memory ... ↗

— John Geddes

#love #memory #poetry-quotes #life

Life is too damn short to not tell someone how you feel. Don't let someone because you're afraid or you'll lose them forever. ↗

— Benjamin Bayani

#life #life-lessons #love #life

I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#prejudice #prejudices #racism #stantasyland #life

Has someone or something pushed your anxiety button? Answer it with prayer! ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#christian #god #life-quotes #prayer #pushing-buttons