#son

Those are big collisions, Hally. They make for a lot of bruises. People get hurt in all that bumping, and we're sick and tired of it now. It's been going on for too long. Are we never going to get it right?...Learn to dance life like champions instead of always being just a bunch of beginners at it? ↗

— Athol Fugard

#bruised #collision #dance #life #life-lesson

Living by your principles will always be the harder path. But you have to do it anyway. You have to do what’s right no matter how hard it gets, or one day you’ll find out you’ve become somebody you can’t live with. ↗

— Zoe Cannon

#life

While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#editing #editing-humor #editors #joy #neurosis

In the high tide or low tide, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend! ↗

— Nesta Robert Marley

#friendship #life #song #friendship

A good river is nature's life work in song. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#river #song #life

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#because #cats #creatures #like #lovable

I do watch what I eat, but not for weight reasons. ↗

— Diane Kruger

#i #i do #reasons #watch #weight

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#god #man #passions #reason

Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness. ↗

— Dan Millman

#darkness #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #life-lessons #light

But I understood, now, that we don’t live only for ourselves. We’re connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied together with compassion. I learned that even when we’re going through our darkest winter, spring is waiting to appear. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#grief #healing #laura-anderson-kurk #love #romance