#your

If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing? ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#life

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#obligations #society #then #understand #you

Life is simple, just be yourself. ↗

— E'yen A. Gardner

#life #life

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#fool #happiest-time-of-your-life #liar #life

Your best teacher is your last mistake. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#best #last #mistake #your

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#depression #efforts #entails #fear #fools

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. ↗

— Robert Hass

#half #hour #life #take #time

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart. ↗

— Andres Segovia

#body #chest #forward #guitar #heart

It seemed so simple in a lot of ways, to use a basic melody to pull away from myself. To ease the pain and hide my feelings deep within a metaphor that only I understood. I couldn’t have foreseen that my quiet and dark night of the soul would start me down a path of expression through song. ↗

— Mike Ericksen

#healing-grief #music #music

Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#being-yourself #life #life