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Achieve everything and fail at the rest ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#humour #life #philosophy #wisdom #life

I’m one of those introverts with well-honed social skills, and I have even danced on the occasional table, but I have felt sheer panic when my exhaustion precedes my exit. It’s like the Cinderella story with a twist: I want to get out of there and into my duds before midnight—or ten, or eight. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#life

Entrusting one's life is not the same as opening up one's soul. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#life

Normal Christian life is a process of restoration and renewal. Our joy is not static. It fluctuates with real life. It is vulnerable to satan's attacks. ↗

— John Piper

#sanctification #life

To delete our memory to zero! A completely new life! . . This is a fantastic idea! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#life

...I realize that lessons are meant to be learned, honored even, or else you can spend your life running so far from them that you erect a false existence around the very thing you should be embracing. ↗

— Allison Winn Scotch

#life

...because being a smart-ass is always preferable to being a dumb-ass. ↗

— Arlaina Tibensky

#humor #life #life

Failure is the sourness that makes success All the more sweeter. ↗

— Joshua Wisenbaker

#life #success #life

I want to see the king," I said, after explaining who I was. "Wonderful," said the ancient Nkumai who sat on a cushion near the corner pole of the house. "I'm glad for you." That was all, and apparently he meant to say no more. "Why are you so glad?" I asked. "Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#unfulfilled #wishes #life

These men are in prison: that is the Outsider’s verdict. They are quite contented in prison—caged animals who have never known freedom; but it is prison all the same. And the Outsider? He is in prison too: nearly every Outsider in this book has told us so in a different language; but he knows it. His desire is to escape. But a prison-break is not an easy matter; you must know all about your prison, otherwise you might spend years in tunnelling, like the Abbe in The Count of Monte Cristo, and only find yourself in the next cell. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#prison #freedom