#accomplish

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#pretentious #accomplishments

Ah, Ms. Ferrars. I don't know what you hope to accomplish by sitting in the corner. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#juliette #accomplishments

Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't ↗

— Jerry Rice

#accomplishments

Everything we'll accomplish, we'll do it together or not at all. ↗

— Shelly Crane

#maggie #accomplishments

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment? ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#fiery-cross #accomplishments

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#church #escape #accomplishments

I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks. It happens sometimes when you are lost in a hard challenge, or when an artist or a craftsman becomes one with the brush or the tool. It happens sometimes while you’re playing sports, or listening to music or lost in a story, or to some people when they feel enveloped by God’s love. And it happens most when we connect with other people. I’ve come to think that happiness isn’t really produced by conscious accomplishments. Happiness is a measure of how thickly the unconscious parts of our minds are intertwined with other people and with activities. Happiness is determined by how much information and affection flows through us covertly every day and year. ↗

— David Brooks

#affection #connections #consciousness #happiness #information

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. ↗

— Mark Twain

#boy #commonest #could #even #george

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#careful #crazy #lot #me #past

To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#accomplish #denigrate #his way #movement #organize