#carp

We are the change we have been waiting for. ↗

— Barack Obama

#change #change

You're such a cynic," Molly said. "I think cynics are playful and cute. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #humor #molly-carpenter #change

I realized then what had happened. She had turned us--all of us, except for Mouse--into great, gaunt, long-legged hounds. Wonderful!" Lea said, pirouetting upon one toe, laughing. "Come, children!" And she leapt off into the jungle, nimble and swift as a doe. A bunch of us dogs stood around for a moment, just sort of staring at one another. And Mouse said, in what sounded to me like perfectly understandable English, "That bitch. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humor #karrin-murphy #leanansidhe #molly-carpenter #mouse

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. ↗

— Ernesto Guevara

#carpe-diem #commitment #courage #here-and-now #indiviuality

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#carpeting #children #courage #housekeeping #parenthood

The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now. ↗

— Leo Babauta

#death #important #inspiration #life #priorities

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#death #enjoy-life #life #misattributed #time

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#character #death #life #mindfulness #perfection

Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But when the end is near you'll realize you've been believing that all along. It's like getting caught with your pants down. That's why you gotta live, little one. Yeah stop and smell them roses. ↗

— Cristina Garcia

#death #death

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#carpe-diem #dead #death #dream #dying