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For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks. ↗

— Jill Shalvis

#men #life

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life-lesson #psychology #life

There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#edna-pontellier #fiction #romance #life

You can't beat yourself up anymore,' he says. 'And you can't compare your thing to my thing or to anyone else's thing on the how-bad-should-I-feel? scale. ↗

— Melissa C. Walker

#life-lessons #parental-advice #life

And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak... ↗

— Jojo Moyes

#life-lessons #life

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#life-lesson #life

The worst decisions of your life will always be those that are made out of fear. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#life-lessons #life

I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine. ↗

— Robert Goolrick

#life

The only thing you should be faking is confidence. If you don't have it yet, pretend that you do. Pretend you're not nervous, pretend you're not scared, and after a while, the pretend part disappears. ↗

— Patricia V. Davis

#women-s-empowerment #life