#cho

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#art #happiness #life #melancholy #sadness

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying. ↗

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

#freedom #freedom

Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #love #psychology #art

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club. ↗

— David Dinkins

#could #done #downtown #give #got

I wasn't good at school. ↗

— Celine Dion

#i #school

I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#am #believe #better #better off #denominational

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love. ↗

— Arielle Dombasle

#being #i #kind #love #melancholy

...any one who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums, Paul learned, who find prison so soul destroying. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#public-school #slums #home

I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team. ↗

— Gabby Douglas

#few #hours #i #practice #relax

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#actually #becomes #choosing #close #experience