#cons

Why are we asked to make the most important decisions of our lives when we are so young, and so prone to mistakes? ↗

— Samuel Park

#life #youth #life

It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return. ↗

— Sheila Heti

#life

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#consciousness #elixir-of-life #life #mornings #life

I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer of historical ashes. Is the life of mind something like that of great trees of immemorial growth? Is the living layer of consciousness super-imposed upon hundreds of dead layers? Dead? No doubt this is too much to say, but still, when memory is slack the past becomes almost as though it had never been. To remember that we did know once is not a sign of possession but a sign of loss; it is like the number of an engraving which is no longer on its nail, the title of a volume no longer to be found on its shelf. My mind is the empty frame of a thousand vanished images. ↗

— Henri-Frédéric Amiel

#memory #mind #past #life

With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#attention #been #complaint #confine #consideration

Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life #people #life

This civilization is the impact of the world's consumption behavior. ↗

— Toba Beta

#civilization #consumption #impact #life #trend

The life we live is an expression of the choices we make. ↗

— Laurie Buchanan

#choices-and-consequences #life

It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake. ↗

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#knitting #mistake #yarn #life

When your heart's gratitude comes to the fore, when you become all gratitude, this gratitude is like a flow, a flow of consciousness. When your consciousness is flowing, feel that this gratitude-flow is like a river that is watering the root of the tree and the tree itself. It is always through gratitude that your consciousness-river will grow and water the perfection-tree inside you. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#gratitude #inspirational