#sure

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#solitude #life

There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#endings #life

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. ↗

— Jane Austen

#memory #pain #pleasure #life

You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#eleven-minutes #paolo-coelho #treasure #victim #world

When nothing is sure, everything is possible. ↗

— Margaret Drabble

#nothing #possible #sure

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#every #life #measure #sometimes #sorrow

It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#pleasure #life

Don't just expect the scouts to find you. Go to camps, clinics and make sure you are seen. ↗

— Paul Quantrill

#clinics #expect #find #go #just

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#life

Sometimes I feel like all the crap in the world is building up inside me, like all the bad is just filling me like a balloon. I push it all back, live my happy life. But sometimes that balloon exposed and all the crap lands on everything around me. ↗

— Keary Taylor

#pressure #sad #sadness #life