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Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkin? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene. ↗

— N. D. Wilson

#inspirational #life #tolkien #freedom

Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures. ↗

— Guy Debord

#children #life #life

I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#life

My life is an apology for the life of my father. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#life #life

You can't beat yourself up anymore,' he says. 'And you can't compare your thing to my thing or to anyone else's thing on the how-bad-should-I-feel? scale. ↗

— Melissa C. Walker

#life-lessons #parental-advice #life

And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak... ↗

— Jojo Moyes

#life-lessons #life

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#life

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#purpose #life

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#life-lesson #life

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#jack #ma #thoughts-on-life #life