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The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. ~ Ernest Hemingway
I know only too well the kind of hits you have to take from life before you grow hard.
But the thing people don’t realize is that the past is a living, breathing entity that exists apart from our wishes or best intentions. It’s not gone, and it’s certainly not invisible. Its fingerprints are smeared all over every moment of the present, its weight drags on every second of the future, its consequences echo down every hallway of our lives.
We can no more rid ourselves of the past than we could stop the earth from spinning.
But I have to seem like I’m making an effort because nobody likes a nihilist. You can only stay depressed for so long before people lose patience and ...
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Our bones have a wisdom that our hearts will always follow, regardless of the roads down which our rational minds think we should head.
In Europe, women are considered sexy at all ages. For that matter, in all shapes and sizes, too. Beauty and desirability have nothing to do with the number on your birth certificate or scale.
The United States of Advertising has made everybody insecure about their looks.”
Life’s too short to mince words. Our existence is measured in minutes. Seconds. Heartbeats. Time is the most valuable commodity we have, because it can never be replenished. Once it’s gone…it’s gone forever. And so are we.”
When you start to live outside yourself, it’s all dangerous. ~ Ernest Hemingway
“Hard things are broken by hard things.”
“Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.”
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
“L-love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”
“You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”
There’s nothing that makes you feel more like a woman than lying under the powerful bulk of a man.
Because the truth is that sometimes ignorance is a far wiser choice. Wiser and safer for everyone concerned.”
“Make sure you look in his medicine cabinet. Everyone’s juicy secrets are in their medicine cabinets, and you don’t need a password to get in like you would with a computer.”
It wasn’t how long we had that mattered. It was the strength of love we shared as a family. It was all the joy and indescribable pleasure that being a mother brought to my life.
we’re going to spend every day as if it’s our last. No regrets. No looking back or forward. Just being in the moment. Making every minute count.
It’s the clinging to emotion that causes suffering, she said. A wiser choice is to let it go and breathe.
…all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. ~ Ernest Hemingway
“No one can offer you proof of reality, not even Einstein himself. But just because it can’t be proven doesn’t mean the sun won’t rise tomorrow. It will.”
That’s the only way we can ever achieve immortality. Love is what binds us together eternally, the only thing that survives after death…or
“There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
“Drinking bourbon during the day doesn’t make you an alcoholic. It makes you a pirate.”
Every love story has a beginning. That was theirs. One look, one locked gaze, and they were both done for.
