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what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#los-angeles #wisdom #youth #life

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#wisdom #life

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#men #reform #women #humor

Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don't know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#foresight #human #human-senses #inspirational-quotes #intuition

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#simon-lewis #life

You should not confuse your career with your life. ↗

— Dave Barry

#work #life

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#thoughts #words #experience

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#knowing #life #novel #people #worth

In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#healing #light #spiritual-life #wounds #life

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#reading #life