#up

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal ↗

— Keith Richards

#life

It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed. ↗

— Billy Collins

#growing-up #poetry #life

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#human-rights #humanity #patriotism #simplicity #life

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else. ↗

— William Ames

#anywhere #because #come #does #else

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#preocupation #worries #worry #life

...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ... ↗

— John Geddes

#sensual-life #soul #superficial #wise-words #life

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#lessons-learned #life #man #life

Education is the preparation of a child intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and physically for life and for eternity. ↗

— Kevin Swanson

#kevin #school #swanson #upgrade #education

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#irony #life #mothers #people #life