#val

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. ↗

— Hans Selye

#becoming #every #indelible #leaves #little

[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#life #survival #survivor #life

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#fact #i #laugh #make #secret

As you travel around medieval England you will come across a sport described by some contemporaries as 'abominable ... more common, undignified and worthless than any other game, rarely ending but with some loss, accident or disadvantage to the players themselves'. This is football. ↗

— Ian Mortimer

#history #medieval-life #sport #life

Since then her life had been peaceful and happy. She had allowed herself to be worshipped by that strangely captivating lover of hers, whose passionately willful temperament, tempered by that persistent, sunny gaiety, she had up to now only half understood. ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

#diogenes #laughing-cavalier #scarlet-pimpernel #series #life

The whole problem with people is they know what matters but they don't choose it. ~Secret Lives of Bees ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life #life-lessons #values-in-life #life

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable. ↗

— Bill Clinton

#genocide #human-life #rwanda #sanctity-of-life #tolerance

There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it. ↗

— William Golding

#rivalry #life

Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special. There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#maid #perspective #sight #value #life

In India everything has a use and a value. ↗

— Tahir Shah

#life #use #value #life