#zo

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending. ↗

— Kristin Cast

#zoey-redbird #life

Grandma Redbird: Honey, you have to move past this. Zoey: How Grandma? Grandma Redbird: By living the life she'd be proud of you for living. ↗

— Kristin Cast

#zoey #zoey-redbird #life

It was a huge zoo, spread over numberless acres, big enough to require a train to explore it, though it seemed to get smaler as I grew older, train included. Now it's so small it fits in my head. ↗

— Yann Martel

#zoos #life

Trying, trying, always trying. Trying was my life. I was guaranteed nothing. ↗

— Lia Habel

#perserverance #zombies-hope #life

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. ↗

— John Maxwell

#growth #life #life

I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether there is in in the world any despair that would overcome this frantic and perhaps unseemly thirst for life in me, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't... ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#karamazov-bothers #life

But how do you see you?" she asked. "Ever read The Brothers Karamazov?" I asked. "Once, a long time ago." "Well, toward the end, Alyosha is speaking to a young student named Kolya Krasotkin. And he says, Kolya, you're going to have a miserable future. But overall, you'll have a happy life." Two beers down, I hesitated before opening my third. "When I first read that, I didn't know what Alyosha meant," I said. "How was it possible for a life of misery to be happy overall? But then I understood, that misery could be limited to the future." "I have no idea what you're talking about." "Neither do I," I said. "Not yet. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

All zoos, even the most enlightened, are built upon the idea both beguiling and repellent—the notion that we can seek out the wildness of the world and behold its beauty, but that we must first contain that wildness. Zoos argue that they are fighting for the conservation of the Earth, that they educate the public and provide refuge and support for vanishing species. And they are right. Animal-rights groups argue that zoos traffic in living creatures, exploiting them for financial gain and amusement. And they are right. Caught inside this contradiction are the animals themselves, and the humans charged with their well-being. ↗

— Thomas French

#wildness #zoo #beauty

live as temporal, serve as eternal ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul #leadership #pastor-john-paul-warren #sozo-life #voice-of-the-nations

What did the zombie say to the whore? Keep the tip! ↗

— Diana Rowland

#vaginal-fantasy #zombies #life