"There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessnessâ€“like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certainty, really, of loneliness, and nothingness, and so experiences life in that hurried, worthless way one experiences a mistakeâ€“he could no longer get at."

-- Tao Lin

#Mistake Quotes #Loneliness Quotes #Long Quotes

“The balancing act of motherhood and a career, and being a wife, is something that I don't think I'll ever perfect, but I love the challenge of it.”
“Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.”
“Nationality isn't soul ...”
“Some things are created to be together.”

Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.132, Penguin
“I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.”
“It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
“Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.”
“We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.”

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