#pen

If you only had 48 hours left to live, would you spend it like you normally spend your weekends? If not, why spend 2/7th of your life wasting your free time? After all, free time isn’t free. Free time is the most expensive time you have, because nobody pays for it but you. But that also makes it the most valuable time you have, as you alone stand to reap the profits from spending it wisely. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#free #musing #philosophical #philosophy #time

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ↗

— Walt Disney

#best #had #happens #i #kick

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ↗

— Erica Jong

#hands #happens #life #own #take

Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#crescendo #fallen-angel #good-things #life #patch

Life happens. Shit happens. And it happens a lot. To a lot of people. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#shit #shit-happens #life

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. ↗

— Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

#open #open-mindedness #receptiveness #life

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#happens #know #life #matter #minute

Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life

There is, in fact, no way back either to the wolf or to the child. From the very start there is no innocence and no singleness. Every created thing, even the simplest, is already guilty, already multiple. It has been thrown into the muddy stream of being and may never more swim back again to its source. The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life. Nor will suicide really solve your problem [...] You will, instead, embark on the longer and wearier and harder road of life. You will have to multiply many times your two-fold being and complicate your complexities still further. Instead of narrowing your world and simplifying your soul, you will have to absorb more and more of the world and at last take all of it up in your painfully expanded soul, if you are ever to find peace. This is the road that Buddha and every great man has gone, whether consciously or not, insofar as fortune has favored his quest. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#life

Something is always happening somewhere. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life #life