#so

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was ↗

— Jean Kwok

#life

I told her running away from your problems doesn't solve anything. Really it just hurts the people who count on you. ↗

— Kyle Beachy

#problems #running #the-slide #life

Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling themselves into the water, it is joy itself that shows in the gesture, notwithstanding any sadness the divers may actually feel. When someone jumps into the water fully clothed, it is another thing entirely: the only person who jumps into the water fully clothed is a person trying to drown; and a person trying to drown does not dive headfirst; he lets himself fall: thus speaks the immemorial language of gestures. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#life #philosophical #life

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it. ↗

— Paul Christopher

#life-lessons #life

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. ↗

— Claudius

#miserable #more #nothing #person #than

Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers. ↗

— A.L. Kennedy

#enrichment #humility #personal-satisfaction #strangers #success

Life is good, even though we forget it sometimes. ↗

— Abraham M. Alghanem

#life-lessons #life

This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#loneliness #life

If only yesterday could be my tomorrow then today wouldn't even matter. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#philosophical #philosophy-of-life #philosphy-of-people #life

Don`t let a little fear stop you from getting what you want ↗

— Mahmoud Reda

#life