#los

This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#inspirational #opening-lines #philosophical #inspirational

Looking into the spirit of others is sometimes like looking into a pond. Though we aim to see what's deep in the bottom, we are often distracted by our own reflection. ↗

— Katina Ferguson

#inspirational #philosophy-of-life #inspirational

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#families #family #italian #jewish #then

The amount of money you owe doesn't matter; as long as you use it for good ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#inspirational #life #money #philosophy #wisdom

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher ... and that is a good thing for any man. ↗

— Socrates

#marriage #philospher #marriage

What has started you on this?" I asked. "We were talking about the holidays." "Los Angeles is not a safe place for a young woman alone. I feel it in my bones." "That's your arthritis, Aunt Sadie. Do you want me to get a gun? I'd probably shoot myself in the foot." "I'd rather you got married again." "That might be worse than shooting myself in the foot. ↗

— Cynthia Lawrence

#marriage #marriage

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#writing-inspiration #writing-philosophy #inspirational

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

#philosophy #men

You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#men

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all. ↗

— Criss Jami

#fortunate #fortune #happiness #inspirational #negativity