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Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over. ↗

— Nicole Sobon

#letting-go #life #moving-on #start-over #life

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#inspirational

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#temptation #life

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#childhood #children #maturity #life

If you meet a woman of whatever complexion who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her! And what you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for hanging dead. ↗

— Sena Jeter Naslund

#women #life

If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day . . . the here, the now. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#live-life #life

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#nobility #life

There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.” “And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick. “Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #life #life

Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger. ↗

— Linda Howard

#sobriquet #life

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#self-actualization #self-image #life