#wing

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#human-rights #humanity #patriotism #simplicity #life

Some people will just go with the flow of things and sway in life, while others will fight against the currents and go upstream to reach their destiny. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#following #overcoming-obstacles #peer-pressure #swaying-in-life #life

At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#growing #healthy #understanding #life

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies. ↗

— Vera B. Williams

#growing-up #life

His sixth year, it seemed to him, had lasted a remarkably long time and there were points at which he frankly wondered whether he would ever turn seven. But now it was the night before his birthday, and barring some cosmic disaster, the advent of some unexpected black hole into which the earth might be sucked, with the attendant reversal or suspension of time, in very few hours he would be waking up to a world in which he was numbered among the seven-year-olds. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#life

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? ↗

— Frida Kahlo

#fly #i #need #wings #you

Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly. ↗

— David Allen

#reviewing #work #art

Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me. ↗

— Ree Drummond

#been #bore #i #knowing #me

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#love

I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we always let go. But after we bobbed to the surface, we'd climb out of the pool, clamber up the high-dive ladder, clasp hands, and do it again. We're swimming separately now. I get that. Maybe it's just what you have to do to keep above water. But who knows? Maybe one day, we'll climb out, grab hands, and jumo again. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#growing-up #hopeful #reality-of-life #friendship