#ss

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#ender #life-lessons #life

The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others. ↗

— Ayad Akhtar

#respect #life

Only when we have become nonviolent towards all life will we have learned to live well with others. ↗

— César Chávez

#animal-kindness #animal-rights #nonviolent #vegan #life

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them. ↗

— Rick Bragg

#success #life

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#pessimism #unhappiness #life

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#mindfulness #present #life

I am alive because you want me to. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life #life

But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment. ↗

— Susanna Kearsley

#life

He dispensed starlight to casual moths. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#lifestyle #life

Excuse the mess, but we live here. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#housekeeping #life #mess #messes #life