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Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway. ↗

— Albert Camus

#heartbreak #life #love #relationships #sadness

Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#life

I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love. ↗

— Cameron Dokey

#true-face #true-love #life

Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#god #holy-spirit #jesus #miraculous #life

It’s amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#life

If you see the dragon fly, best you drink the flagon dry.” —Zarost ↗

— Greg Hamerton

#drinking #fantasy-books #fantasy-fiction #life-lessons #life

I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#circles #life #orbits #life

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#disatisfaction #life #life

If you run from enemy fire, I'll make you wash dishes for the rest of your life! ↗

— Naoki Urasawa

#threat #life