#sons

There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #death

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through is now like something from the distant past. We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#letting-go #life #life-lessons #love #memories

Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ. ↗

— James Gavin

#atheist #christ #christian #fair #gavin

Preparation was a term I was to hear more and more. It had another more sinister meaning. If you were prepared, it meant you were doped. ↗

— David Millar

#inspirational #life-lessons #inspirational

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#life-lessons #life

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#life

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#life

I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#love #poetry #share #life

Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life

But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope. ↗

— Emily Maguire

#life #life-lessons #life