#so

That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space. ↗

— Vladimir Bartol

#emptiness #faith #freedom #inspirational #life

Judge not lest ye be judged yourself. ↗

— Metallica

#life-lessons #metallica #momnesia #music #life

Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully ↗

— Kate Spade

#life-philosophy #life

It’s impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishiments. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#life #life-lessons #life

The order I found was the order of disorder ↗

— William Saroyan

#life #order #life

If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said that every mushroom cloud has a silver lining. ↗

— Adam Young Owl City Cave In

#inspirational #life #optimism #song-lyrics #tragedy

It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us. ↗

— Carlos María Domínguez

#life #moments #need #soul #witnesses

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric. ↗

— A.C. Grayling

#society #life

The view that man was ever to be drawn by some vision of the unattainable shining ahead, doomed ever to aspire, but not to achieve, my life and my values could not bring me to that. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#objectivism #philosophy #taggart #life

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#life #reason #life