life

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. Boris Pasternak

Hello Litopians! I hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas, a happy Holiday Season, and that 2025 will outperform all the dreadful (and merited) predictions to become your best year EVER! After the US elections last November, I went into a tailspin nosedive of angst and woe the likes of...

There are times I can't get a word to paper. Now I know why: on those days, I've turned into a dolphin.

All human beings have three lives: public, private and secret. Gabriel García Márquez

“In many ways, life is about managing your delusions; keeping the ones that nourish and eliminating the ones that poison.” Steve Maraboli

“There are no failures–just experiences and your reactions to them.” Tom Krause

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. Bill Watterson

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Life just turns deliciously quirky when you stop resisting yourseld and, instead, honor the intuition that tugs on you like a puppy on a leash in the park. Follow the magic and magic starts to follow you. Tama J. Kieves

Seriously, just ignore this, it will disappear soon...

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.” Isaac Asimov

Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all. William Goldman

“Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.” Denis Waitley

Sometimes life can seem hard, but it’s not necessarily because you’re doing something wrong, it may be because you’re doing something right. Steven Aitchison

Life can’t defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death. Edna Ferber

"When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming." Dory

The writing life is one long, never-ending search for narrative. Well, it's not even a conscious searching. It happens even while you're busy buying groceries and when you're fast asleep. It's a curse. Miriam Toews

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it...

View your life with kindsight. Stop beating yourself up about things from your past. Instead of slapping your forehead and asking, “What was I thinking?” breathe and ask yourself the kinder question, “What was I learning?” Karen Salmansohn