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Patricia embraces me on the station platform. 'The past is what you leave behind in life, Ruby,' she says with the smile of a reincarnated lama. 'Nonsense, Patricia,' I tell her as I climb on board my train. 'The past's what you take with you. ↗

— Kate Atkinson

#past #life

I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus. ↗

— Jim Elliot

#life #life

Ne scapă mereu câte ceva în viaţă, de aceea trebuie să ne naştem mereu. ↗

— Marin Sorescu

#life-s-purpose #life

This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain. ↗

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#life #pain #philosophy #life

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#feeling #life #sand-castle #tide #life

Every good girl loved a bad boy. It was a fact of life, a quirk of nature. Opposites attracts, and the badder the boy, the more attractive he was to that good girl who couldn't help but be drawn to him. ↗

— Primal Kiss Lora Leigh

#life

That was, in fact, my life. A whole series of reasonable lies. ↗

— Stacey Kade

#reasonable-lies #life

Some things in life are worth waiting for. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#secrets #life

Life can't be divided into chapters...only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other without any time lapses or blank pages or chapter breaks because no matter what happens life just keeps going and moving forward and words keep flowing and truths keep spewing whether you like it or not and life never lets you pause and just catch your fucking breath. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#life-lessons #time-passing #life

Failure to shed tears is a failure to live life fully. And the one thing that life requires of us all is to live it. Never be embarrassed by your ability to be alive. ↗

— Amy Neftzger

#crying #embarrassment #life #life-lessons #sad-days