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there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#layover #life #living #poetry #life

Our life is one, big proverbial coin toss. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#ian-somerhalder #julie-plec #tv-show #tvd #life

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them. ↗

— Alan Clark

#better #help #how #know #more

The Prophet (SAW) said: 'Knowledge is only gained through learning and clemency is only gained through perseverance. ↗

— Muhammad Adb Al-Rahman Al-Arifi

#knowledge #mohammad #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

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#animal-cruelty #animal-kindness #animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals

Would Alona be gone before I even got a chance to say good-bye? A real good-bye? One last kiss and the chance to tell her that she’d made my life better even as she’d made me crazy? That we were better together than I would ever be by myself, but that because of her, I would be okay? Not great, but okay, and I owed that all to her? No. I needed to see her one last time. ↗

— Stacey Kade

#life

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#to-put-it-another-way #life

If you don't appreciate her, you don't deserve her. ↗

— Robert Tew

#life #life-lessons #life-quote #relationships #woman

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