Shaun Hick
This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world. ― Shaun Hick
Category: Paraphrase
C. JoyBell C.Z
People wait around too long for love. I’m happy with all of my lusts! ― C. JoyBell C.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living. ― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Philippics (43- 44 BC)
Shannon L. Alder
There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness. ― Shannon L. Alder
Ernest Hemingway
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with… Continue reading Ernest Hemingway
Ann Brashares
Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes… Continue reading Ann Brashares
Milan Kundera
Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain. ― Milan Kundera, Immortality (Gardners Books; 1st edition, July 31, 2000) Originally published January 12th 1990.
David Levithan
Insight, n.: How telling that there isn’t anything called “outsight,” as if language itself knows the direction that wisdom must come from. — David Levithan
Octavia Butler
In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn. ― Octavia Butler
David Viscott
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. — David Viscott
The Vale of Soul-Making 