#so

We must come together in ways that respect the solitude of the soul that avoid the unconscious violence we do when we try to save each other that evoke our capacity to hold another life without dishonoring its mystery never trying to coerce the other into meeting our own needs. ↗

— Parker J. Palmer

#soul #life

There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#philosophy #schopenhauer #life

Life isn't only about choice. Life is about how you provide value to your life and others. ↗

— Launa Rissadia

#life #life-lessons #self #self-motivation #life

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#also #douglas #fantastic #fiction #first

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#motivation #reason #life

Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#life

If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem. ↗

— Robert Anthony

#become #find #good #may #next

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death? ↗

— Euripides

#philosophical #profound #wisdom #death

Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.) ↗

— Teresa of Ávila

#life #philosophy #death

Absence is to love what wind is to fire, it extinguishes the small, it ignites the great. ↗

— Rabutin

#life