#sm

Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when you´d utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. “Good book?” he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, “A Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad,” out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor. ↗

— Michele Jaffe

#funny #teen #funny

I don’t want my thoughts to die with me, I want to have done something. I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution - know that my life has meaning. ↗

— Temple Grandin

#autism #oliver-sacks #life

In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#optimism #life

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. ↗

— Max Planck

#god #science #intelligence

Promise me you’ll look after yourself … stay out of trouble …’ ‘I always do, Mrs Weasley,’ said Harry. ‘I like a quiet life, you know me. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#life

salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#religion #life

I wanted color. I wanted to soar with happiness even if it meant dealing with the weight of fear and guilt, too. I wanted to live. ↗

— Heather Anastasiu

#happy #life #living #optimism #optimistic

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies. ↗

— David Eagleman

#god #life #religion #life

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#nationalism #life

I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#good-and-evil #idealism #politics #vetinari #life