#on

It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#in-love #life #love #moment #pretend

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#inspiration #life #problems #sorrows #struggles

There is no formula to relationships. They have to be negotiated in loving ways, with room for both parties, what they want and what they need, what they can do and what their life is like. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#relationships #life

Wesley went everywhere with me from then on. I even wrapped him in baby blankets and held him in my arms while grocery shopping, to keep him warm during the first cold winter. Occasionally someone would ask to see "the baby," and when I opened the blanket, would leap back shrieking, "What is that?! A dinosaur?" Apparently, the world is full of educated adults with mortgages and stock portfolios who think people are walking around grocery stores with dinosaurs in their arms. ↗

— Stacey O'Brien

#humor #owls #science #education

Resistance is common to the unusual. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #resistance #unusual #life

Those people cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them because they see and covet what He has not given them. All of our discontents for what we want appear to me to spring from want of thankfulness for what we have. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#life

Two people with mental issues in a relationship does not work. It's like sitting in a boat and neither one has an oar to row the other to shore. You can meet your mirror image in life but that doesn't mean you should marry him. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life

Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#competition #life #life

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly. ↗

— Michelle Moran

#life

Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation. ↗

— Anthony Marra

#definition #life #phenomena #vital #life