#life

"Single is not a status, it is a word that describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy life without depending on others."

"there isn't enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervalsa sweetness appears and, given a chanceprevails."

"I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take a deep breath, I open my eyes. Looking, I see there are worms in the horns of the altar like live maggots in amber, there are shells of worms in the rock and moths flapping at my eyes. A wind from no place rises. A sense of the real exults me; the cords loosen: I walk on my way."

"Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget."

"Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different."

"Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?"

"...and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, 'That was fine'. And your life is a long line of fine."

"Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with a catastrophe. The garbage can still overflow, the bills arrive in the mail, telemarketers, interrupt dinner."

"The dead do not hurt you; only the living do."

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."

"No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens."

"Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever."

"Opportunity is not your opponent—it is your ally, but it’s hard to see that because opportunity is often camouflaged and hidden among danger and chaos."

"Jonesing [10w] Is it odd of me that I'm Jonsesing for strange?"

"The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future."

"Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change."

"For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose."

"Dictator [10w] Clever dictators keep their friends closeand their enemies dead."

"Sublime Beauty When I shut my eyes, I can move mountains.When I open them, mountains can move me."

"Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears."After all this time?""Always,"said Snape."