#ife

Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#growth #inspirational-life #attitude

I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning. There are things I need to tell you, but would you listen if I told you how quickly time passes? I know you are unable to imagine this. Nevertheless, I can tell you that you will awake someday to find that your life has rushed by at a speed at once impossible and cruel. The most intense moments will seem to have occurred only yesterday and nothing will have erased the pain and pleasure, the impossible intensity of love and its dog-leaping happiness, the bleak blackness of passions unrequited, or unexpressed, or unresolved. ↗

— Meg Rosoff

#death #endings #life #love #passage

Life happened. In all its banality, brutality, cruelty, unfairness. But also in its beauty, pleasures and delights. Life happened. ↗

— Thrity Umrigar

#beauty

They can gas me, but I am famous. I have achieved in one day what it took Robert Kennedy all his life to do. ↗

— Sirhan Sirhan

#am #day #famous #gas #his

I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#american #american society #except #farm #felt

I like having options, alternate lives unlived but always possible. ↗

— Abigail Padgett

#choices-and-consequences #life #living #living-life #opportunities

It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life. ↗

— Dick Sargent

#fear #found #given #i #life

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#life

Even blind alleys lead somewhere. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#life #life

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#artists #ideas #life #poets #reality