“I was younger then, I wasn’t afraid of anything, I didn’t think about dying for a second. I thought I was invincible. Then I met some girl. I wanted to live, I started to think like that; for the first time I was afraid of death. I had never felt like that before.”—Spike Spiegel (Cowboy Bebop)
Really hard, but let’s keep trying!
“To become happy, you need to pay a fair price. Which means that excessive fortune can only be viewed as a threat. You need to earn that fortune through an appropriate amount of work and struggle.”
Yuuko - xxxHolic
“Living things are restrained by Chains: The laws of nature, the flow of time, the vessel known as your “body”, and the existence called your mind. The one chain that people can wield: WORDS”—Yuuko - xxxHolic
“ I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own ”
— Chaim Potok
“ Keep true, never be ashamed of doing the right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it ”
— Gandhi
“ Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it ”
— Russell Baker
Can I do it?
(Source: redwhiteblueandblue, via goldgossamer)
“ Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be critcized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“ The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places ”
— Will Rogers
“ There is no fresh start; lives carry on ”
— Henry Francis (Mad Men)
“ If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased ”
— Katharine Hepburn
“ Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. Start where you stand and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. ”
— George Herbert
“ Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ”
— Plato
