#r

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with. ↗

— George Eliot

#truth-of-life #life

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges. ↗

— Judith Martin

#courtesy #manners #miss-manners #age

Satan will always provide a witness to where you have been, in order to challenge your fate. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#christianity #destiny #gossip #haters #life-missions

She was grieving the loss of her youth, the closing down of possibilities as life became what it was rather than what it might have been. ↗

— Kimberley Freeman

#life

All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered. ↗

— Michael Ende

#friendship

He said when the Lord made people He made them all the same for starters. But life marks people. If you know the way, you can read them like maps. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#crime-fiction #neo-noir #life

Trying, trying, always trying. Trying was my life. I was guaranteed nothing. ↗

— Lia Habel

#perserverance #zombies-hope #life

What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die. ↗

— Jean-Luc Godard

#life

How do you control another person? Two ways. Trust, or fear. People and animals will follow you if they trust you. But trust must be earned. And it is earned by people who are good and great. So if you’re neither good nor great, you can only use fear... ↗

— J.H. Myn

#life #trust #truth #life

Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, for coming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn’t able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity. ↗

— Aleksandr Voinov

#life #roles #wife #life