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“Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.”

Thinking Life Hard Hands Young Water Simple Sun Safe Fingers Cups Noticing

Author:Jean Anouilh

“It's interesting--the way in which one has to balance life--because you have to know when to let go and when to pull back.... There's always some liminal (as opposed to subliminal) space in between which is harder to inhabit because it never feels as safe as moving from one extreme to another.”

Knows Way Life Feels Moving Space Interesting Security Balance Safe Letting Go Harder Extremes Subliminal

Author:Bell Hooks

“It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.”

World Life Hard Safe Miserable

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.”

Ifs Men Life May Made Whole Courses Force Goal Poverty Rich Ready Safe Errors Ill Guides Whole Life Secure Guidance Barriers Surround Beaten Tempted Hamper

Book:The Works of Thomas Carlyle

Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle

“You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.”

Ifs Knows World Life Problem Safe Conflict Picks Beach Happy Endings

Author:Nancy Thayer