#do

Detik itu juga aku merasa seolah-olah jantungku diremas. Ah. Inilah sebabnya mengapa aku menyukai film dokumenter.Film dokumenter membuat aku sadar bahawa hidup ini nyata, bahwa dunia yang kutinggali ini tidak sempurna. ↗

— Windry Ramadhina

#film #life #reality #life

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#book-stores #books #london #reading #life

London is on the whole the most possible form of life. ↗

— Henry James

#city-life #life #london #metropolis #life

You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into their eyes as if they were old friends. (Maybe they are, you said. From another life.) You liked to go to the pound and look at them. You tried to send them messages of comfort. I couldn’t go because I started crying the one time I tried. All those eyes and the barks like sobs. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#animal-cruelty #animal-kindness #animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals

Always blow your own trumpet, blowing someone else’s is unhygienic ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #life-lessons #philosophy #wisdom #life

I think that the thing I most want you to remember is that research is a ceremony. And so is life. Everything that we do shares in the ongoing creation of our universe. ↗

— Shawn Wilson

#methodologies #research #life

If you live with dogs, you'll never run out of things to write about. ↗

— Sharon Delarose

#dog-lover #dogs #life-with-dogs #living-with-dogs #writer

Don't ya wanna hear the secret?' his eyes were narrow and mean, despite the glaze of rum. Louer drained his glass and slammed it to the bar. 'You get happy by learnin' to say 'yes' to what life offers you, but stay happy by rememberin' when to start sayin' 'no'. ↗

— T.B. McKenzie

#life

When your efforts run in the face of conventional wisdom and accepted mastery, persistence can look like madness. If you succeed in the end, this extreme originality reformulates into a new level of mastery, sometimes even genius; if you fail in the end, you remain a madman in the eyes of others, and maybe even yourself. When you are in the midst of the journey…there’s really no way of knowing which one you are.” (p.129) ↗

— Hilary Austen

#conventional-wisdom #effort #extreme-originality #genius #journey

You have to be ill if you want to get better. ↗

— Colin Firth

#wisdom #life