#sent

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#death-sentence #different #death

This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don’t mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#ghosts #haunted #resentment #death

We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of self-awareness, of presenting yourself to the world. The truth is, it starts with how you look, and that goes into how you dress. ↗

— Allison Williams

#dress #era #everyone #facebook #goes

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space. ↗

— Amin Maalouf

#life #past #present #death

I often dream about the Dolphin Hotel. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#dreams

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ↗

— Roberto Assagioli

#endless #forgiveness #governed #life #resentment

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness. ↗

— Mary Astor

#good #instead #journeys #make #sameness

I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#present #education

If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness. I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#inspirational #change

In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. 'Time' doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #living-in-the-moment #past #present #time