#v

There is no better guide to this world than oblivion. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#love #oblivion #life

Where does the world’s zephyr strike from the view which let you to live the eternal moment of love other than in the Divine Light of sight? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#light #love #world #life

I quite love sequins; I think it's the drag queen in me. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#i #i think #love #me #queen

Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet. Sarah L. (Sadie) Delany ↗

— Amy Hill Hearth

#having-our-say #life-is-short #life

[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a need to live, to live actively, violently, noisily, a need to sing, to make music, to roam the woods, to drink a little too much and get involved in a brawl. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#living #life

Because the night you asked me, the small scar of the quarter moon had healed - the moon was whole again; because life seemed so short; because life stretched out before me like the halls of a nightmare; because I knew exactly what I wanted; because I knew exactly nothing; because I shed my childhood with my clothes - they both had years of wear in them; because your eyes were darker than my father's; because my father said I could do better; because I wanted badly to say no; because Stanly Kowalski shouted "Stella...;" because you were a door I could slam shut; because endings are written before beginnings; because I knew that after twenty years you'd bring the plants inside for winter and make a jungle we'd sleep in naked; because I had free will; because everything is ordained; I said yes. ↗

— Linda Pastan

#future #love #marriage #life

There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal life, we are made for an act that gathers up all the powers and capacities of our being and offers them simultaneously and forever to God. The blind spiritual instinct that tells us obscurely that our owns lives have a particular importance and purpose, and which urges us to find out our vocation, seeks in so doing to bring us to a decision that will dedicate our lives irrevocably to their true purpose. The man who loses this sense of his own personal destiny, and who renounces all hope of having any kind of vocation in life has either lost all hope of happiness or else has entered upon some mysterious vocation that God alone can understand. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#relationship #vocation #wholeness #life

If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature. ↗

— Federico Chini

#essence #life #nature #private-life #sea

Very well. He'd lighten up. As a matter of fact, he felt as light as the bubbly froth that flew from the lips of the waves. Whatever else his long, unprecedented life might have been, it had been fun. Fun! If others should find that appraisal shallow, frivolous, so be it. To him, it seemed now to largely have been some form of play. And he vowed that in the future he would strive to keep that sense of play more in mind, for he'd grown convinced that play--more than piety, more than charity or vigilance--was what allowed human beings to transcend evil. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#evil #fun #life #piety #play

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe ↗

— Thomas Gilovich

#logic #mind #psychology #life