#w

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#inspiration #life #problems #sorrows #struggles

A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it's been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute ↗

— Rumi

#spirituality #sufi #wisdom #life

Wesley went everywhere with me from then on. I even wrapped him in baby blankets and held him in my arms while grocery shopping, to keep him warm during the first cold winter. Occasionally someone would ask to see "the baby," and when I opened the blanket, would leap back shrieking, "What is that?! A dinosaur?" Apparently, the world is full of educated adults with mortgages and stock portfolios who think people are walking around grocery stores with dinosaurs in their arms. ↗

— Stacey O'Brien

#humor #owls #science #education

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#life

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best. ↗

— Tad Williams

#words #life

... I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page. ↗

— Monique Wittig

#writing-life #life

The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States. ↗

— Carlos Alvarez

#available #became #brand #corona #exclusively

i feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years. ↗

— Breece D'J Pancake

#confidence #writing-life #life

Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#self #shadow #life

Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn‟t take a peek at what you‟d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was all you got. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#crave #fallen #ward #life