#fort

May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is ... Chocolate. ↗

— Geraldine Solon

#chocolate #comfort #coping #hard-times #life

But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#georgie #grieving #lucia #selfish #life

For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known. ↗

— Ann M. Martin

#life #safety #life

You were born, and with you endless possibilities―very few ever to be realized.  It's okay.  Life was never about what you could do, but what you would do.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#birthday #drive #effort #hope #possibilities

The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#happiness #joy #practice #work #life

Is there any other way to be? I mean, this is it. This is my body, my soul; I gotta live with it. I'd better get comfortable. I plan on taking it for a long ride. ↗

— Cecil Castellucci

#life #life

The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#effort #life #purpose #quality-of-life #reason

All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers. For everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must the life of those be who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep. By great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#blessings #chance #good-fortune #life #luck

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which is what matters most. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#happiness #life #misfortune #life

She looked so disappointed, so grieved and desperate that Clem longed to comfort her, only he couldn't think of thing to say that she hadn't heard a hundred times from Dad and Dr. Snow and Mrs. Mack: how things would get better in time, though no one knew how much time, and that life might be a little better for her and Jess once school began again. ↗

— Judith Clarke

#comforting #loss #life