#wisdom

I don't like him." Looking from Kale to Alex, Ginger said, "I don't like cabbage. Do you see me taking on the produce section of the food store? ↗

— Jus Accardo

#old-lady #wisdom #food

We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is my abandonment. ↗

— Rock Peter

#my-abandonment #peter #rock #wisdom #experience

L’arbre tombe feuille à feuille : si les hommes contemplaient chaque matin ce qu’ils ont perdu la veille, ils s’apercevraient bien de leur pauvreté. ↗

— François-René de Chateaubriand

#time #wisdom #life

But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for...or if the bastard was going to make you throw up your corn dog and your cotton candy all over the place. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#humor #life-lessons #life-sucks #random #wisdom

Success can bring you happiness, finding happiness is success ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #love #philosophy #wisdom #family

A Sufi will say – Everything is beautiful, even the dirt that clings beneath my feet. ↗

— Zarina Bibi

#beauty

The wise hero must realise how terrible it will be, when all the wealth of this world lies waste, as now in various places throughout this middle-earth walls stand, blown by the wind covered with frost, the buildings storm-swept. The halls decay, their lords lie deprived of joy, the whole hearth-troop has fallen, proud by the wall. from THE WANDERER, lines 73-80 ↗

— Anonymous

#beautiful-writing #destruction #futility #haunting #middle-earth

Hope without love is hopeless. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #hope #hopeless #literature #literature-quotes

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #love #poems #poetry

Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them. ↗

— Deborah Harkness

#wisdom #love