#lis

Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#actions #fables #failure #frustration #necessary

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that. ↗

— Alan Moore

#life #under-the-hood #life

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#life #mellow #sarah-dessen #life

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing. ↗

— Alan Moore

#life

If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother? ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#effort #extreme #goals #life #performance

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poetry #villain #life

and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#life

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#life

There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves. ↗

— Frank Warren

#secrets #spiritualism #life

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by ↗

— Alison Weir

#innocent-traitor #jane-grey #truth #life