#the

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#enjoy #future #happens #neither #nor

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea. ↗

— Dennis E. Adonis

#contentment #decisions #greed #happiness #love

But there’s more. When I was on my way to the event today, Carolyn texted me and told me that Steve and Eve got married over break. Six months after he broke up with me, and after he kept telling me he didn’t see marriage in his future! And did I tell you that he broke up with me at the school, during the Fitness Fun-a-Thon fundraising event we worked at?” Her face grew reflective. “I was handing out bottled water when he asked me to go behind the hydration station so he could talk to me privately. The whole time, Eve kept staring at us from the finish line of the three-legged race. She knew I was getting dumped before I did. ↗

— Linda Morris

#entangled #melting-the-millionaire-s-heart #marriage

One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns ... ↗

— Mario Puzo

#men

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ↗

— Les Brown

#does #opinion #other #people #reality

Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#mankind #supernatural #the-tolkien-reader #inspirational

You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - that means your [preparation:]. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of the morning, well, you're going to get found out now, under the bright lights. ↗

— Joe Frazier

#inspirational-success-failure #motivation #under-the-bright-lights #work-ethic #working-out

Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspirational #lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #motivational #tolkien

Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit? ↗

— Pat Conroy

#life #life-is-short #live-in-the-moment #inspirational

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#changing #growing-up #growth #journey #leaving