#wi

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#life #wisdom #life

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#wine #words #life

Because you make me better. You make me-you make me feel like I matter. Like my life matters. I feel like, with you, I can do anything in the world. That we can do anything in the world. And we will. ↗

— Charles Sheehan-Miles

#life

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#life

Suffering teaches joy. ↗

— Sonia Rumzi

#happiness #joy #life #pain #suffering

The two girls disappeared into the stern cabin once more. Will watched them go, then asked Halt, 'Anything you'd like me to do? Grow a beard? Learn to walk like a rooster?' 'If you could stop asking facetious questions, that'd be a start,' Halt told him. 'But it's probably a little late in life for you to do that. ↗

— John Flanagan

#questions #ranger-s-apprentice #will #life

What do you think will be more effective when it comes to succeeding, believing you can or KNOWING you will? Let today be the last day you took timid steps of belief and start taking confident steps of purpose-driven knowing! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#believing-vs-knowing #conviction #motivational #self-knowledge #success

Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#endings #goodbyes #growing-up #relationships #understanding

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening? ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#wisdom #life

It is born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching the goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach. ↗

— Benjamin E. Mays

#wisdom #inspirational