#les

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#life

Fucker, I though to myself. So irritated by a stare! I wonder what your reaction would have been if you had lived under occupation for as many years as I had, or if your shopping rights, like all of your other rights, were violated day and night, or if the olive trees in your grandfather's orchards had been uprooted, or if your village had been bulldozed, or if your house had been demolished, or if your sister could not reach her school, or if your brother had been given three life sentences, or if your mother had given birth at a checkpoint, or if you had stood in a line for days in the hot August summers waiting for your work permit, or if you could not reach your beloved ones in Arab East Jerusalem.... A stare, and you lose your mind! ↗

— Suad Amiry

#life

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone. ↗

— The Buddha

#life

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#attention #been #complaint #confine #consideration

Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writers #writing-process #life

Sometimes it's hard to believe what we are really. ↗

— Riyadh Razzaq

#life-lessons #philosophy #riyadh-razzaq #sad #sad-but-true

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it. ↗

— Jane Austen

#life-lessons #life

Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#living-life #life

In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn. ↗

— Iain Pears

#insufficiency #knowledge #learning #life-lessons #wonder

Sto lavorando duro per preparare il mio prossimo errore. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#life