#val

I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#values #life

To have endured all the horrors he did, to have seen the worst of humanity and have your life made unrecognizable by it, to come out of all that the honorable and brave and good person I knew him to be— *that* was magical. ↗

— Ransom Riggs

#survival #whimsy #life

Surviving is one thing," he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, "but you've got to have a reason to do it. There's no point in living if you don't have anything worth living for. ↗

— David Moody

#living #reason #survival #life

In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . . ↗

— Stephen King

#ben #dystopia #king #life #man

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. ↗

— Yann Martel

#survival-instinct #life

August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a person's heart--now that matters. The whole problem with people--" Lily: They don't know what matters and what doesn't... August:...They know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is to choose what matters. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life #meaning #values #life

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#survival #life

If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#existence #life #value #life

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#artists #falsification #gain #greed #honesty