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We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet, ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#life #intelligence

Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize that they're doing those kids a favor. They're just trying to give them a better life. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#mothers #life

As a kid, I imagined lots of different scenarios for my life. I would be an astronaut. Maybe a cartoonist. A famous explorer or rock star. Never once did I see myself standing under the window of a house belonging to some druggie named Carbine, waiting for his yard gnome to steal his stash so I could get a cab back to a cheap motel where my friend, a neurotic, death-obsessed dwarf, was waiting for me so we could get on the road to an undefined place and a mysterious Dr. X, who would cure me of mad cow disease and stop a band of dark energy from destroying the universe. ↗

— Libba Bray

#crazy #imagination #quick-plot-summary #death

The greatest enemy to fear is truth. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #truth #life

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor's mind toward some resolution which it may never find. ↗

— Robert Anderson

#life #relationship #resolution #death

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through Life with our eyes shut. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#life

What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest? ↗

— Janet Fitch

#damn #hope #life #live #praise

Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom... ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#death #england #london #suburbia #death

If you own this story you get to write the ending. ↗

— Brené Brown

#personal-responsibility #self #story #taking-ownership #life

If it weren’t for love, poets would all be out of a job. As it is, they starve to death and write profound thoughts about that deep, deep feeling. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#humor #love #death