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In 2008, I was the woman who thought she had the world by the tail: the "perfect life." In 2010, I was the woman without hope who thought she had no life left to live. Which woman am I today? Neither. Both were illusions. ↗

— Julie-Anne

#hopelessness #illusions #perfect #life

Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress. ↗

— Clare B. Dunkle

#goblins #life

Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow, sand, mud, grass, dew, earth or moss.... We easily forget that we are track-markers, through, because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete--and these are substances not easily impressed. ↗

— Robert Macfarlane

#inspirational #life #memories #inspirational

Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events. ↗

— Beth Bloom

#sadness #life

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#life #life-lessons #wine #life

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. ↗

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

#amateur #approach #away #creative #creative spirit

I glance back in the mirror to the concrete bridge, the one I've boldly driven straight across without second thought, and I see truth reflecting back at me: Every time fear freezes and worry writhes, every time I surrender to stress, aren't I advertising the unreliability of God? That I really don't believe? But if I'm grateful to the Bridge Builder for the crossing of a million strong bridges, thankful for a million faithful moments, my life speaks my beliefs and I trust Him again. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#god #trust #faith

I am so tired - so tired of being of being whirled on through all these phases of my life, in which nothing abides by me, no creature, no place; it is like the circle in which the victims of earthly passion eddy continually. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#exhaustion #power #powerlessness #tried #life

They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new. ↗

— Tim Tharp

#life-lessons #life-quotes #life

The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life #life-lessons #values-in-life #life