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We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#poetry #life

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#life

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#hesitation #hope #life #tragedy #life

I've been in love with you since the very beginning. You asked why there isn't anyone else in my life, and the reason... is you" - J.D. ↗

— Julie James

#practice-makes-perfect #romance #life

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#satire #education

To travel is to live. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#travel #life

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing double dahlias in his garden or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that has rolled under the radiator. He will not be striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life twenty-four crowded hours of the day. ↗

— W. Beran Wolfe

#life-lessons #pyschology #true #education

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#stories #life

Tears are words the heart can't express ↗

— Gerard Way

#life #love #life