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Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#live-life #time #life

This is to be mortal, And seek the things beyond mortality. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#manfred #mortality #life

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#life #loss #life

... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back. ↗

— Ki Longfellow

#divine-consciousness #divinity #life #philosophy #life

If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#steel-trap #life

Saying you're through with romance is like saying you're done with living, Betty. Life is better with a little romance, you know. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#boyfriends #granddaughters #grandmothers #life #romance

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life #terry-pratchett #tiffany-aching #truth #witches

The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#legacy #life #morality #life

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, just when I had got used to the limits and dimensions of one moment, I was expelled into the next and made to wonder again if any shapes hid in its shadows. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#shadow #waiting #life