#top

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#defeat #journey #life #other-side #stop

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#floats #layer #like #once #society

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew? ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#play #stoppard #life

My life motto: My brakes are broke, but luckily my gas pedal works just fine.
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— Jarod Kintz

#broke #gas-pedal #go #life #motto

Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#democracy #every #filibuster #laws #most

...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as "the sport of the future" since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#future #humor #soccer #sports #humor

Life is a journey, and I may not have always lived up to my ability, but I have always lived purposefully, and I guess readers get caught up with me, raising the questions, looking for the answers, looking to be a little more understanding, a little less judgmental, a little more merciful. I hope so. ↗

— Carol Plum-Ucci

#life

There is no way I can avoid thinking about the kind of world I belong to. The abuse of utopias disfigures everything. ↗

— Floriano Martins

#life #utopia #world #life

Life is excellent or life blows, depending on how you look at it. ↗

— Carol Plum-Ucci

#life

In the street, he turned west and walked against a tide of blank-eyed, gum-chewing faces. A taxi went over a manhole cover, clink-clank. Steam was rising from an excavation at the corner. The world was like a puzzle with half the pieces missing. What was the pont of all these drab buildings, this dirty sky? ↗

— Damon Knight

#onomatopoeia #prose-poetry #urban-life #life