# life

I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#blind eye #day #every #every day #eye

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters. ↗

— May Sarton

#agree #ambiguous #best #clear #crystal

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#books #i #i have learned #know #learned

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#i #kept #life #my life #shampoo

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual. ↗

— Eisaku Sato

#closely #daily #daily life #each #individual

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. ↗

— George Saunders

#fear #habitual #hurtful #i #i love

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society. ↗

— George Saunders

#been #capitalist #capitalist society #course #done

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own). ↗

— George Saunders

#believer #cool #desire #does #especially

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory. ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #combination #contradictory #creative #creative life

There were a lot of areas we didn't cover that I'm hoping to cover if we do some specials. One is to see more of Patsy's home and her home life, which is just the saddest thing. ↗

— Jennifer Saunders

#cover #her #home #home life #hoping