#so

Life isn't a lazy cruise on some endless, calm and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storms―overcast skies, fierce winds, and pelting rain. You were meant to be immersed in it all―first to float, then swim, and eventually to walk on water. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#growing #growth #hardships #learning #life

One thing you'll learn as you get older, Simon, is that when people tell you something unpleasant about themselves, it's usually true. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life #life-lessons #life

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever ↗

— Westminster Shorter Catechism

#history-of-philosophy #meaning-of-life #motto #motto-in-life #reformed

...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits ↗

— John Geddes

#self #self-awareness #the-heart #the-soul #the-spirit

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone. ↗

— The Buddha

#life

I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#life #philosophy-of-life #thought #thoughts-on-life #life

Sometimes, on a personal level, I wince. ↗

— Terry Semel

#level #personal #personal level #sometimes #wince

Wisdom—seems to the rabble a kind of escape, a means and a trick for getting well out of a wicked game. But the genuine philosopher—as it seems to us, my friends?—lives "unphilosophically" and "unwisely," above all imprudently, and feels the burden and the duty of a hundred attempts and temptations of life—he risks himself constantly, he plays the wicked game. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#wisdom #life

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. ↗

— Seneca

#comes #end #every #new #new beginning

The more I learn, the more I yearn. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#living #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #life