#dry

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without. ↗

— Jack Kornfield

#the-laundry #life

When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay: To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possesst. ↗

— John Dryden

#lies #life #scam #tags-dryden #life

Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft petal, with thorns but now it is left with only thorns which could still hurt. ↗

— ideaswar

#dry-rose #hurt #past #present #rose

...or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#music

The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#daja #fear #friends #sandry #bravery

A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden. ↗

— Walter Raleigh

#j-m-porup #privacy #writer #nature

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. ↗

— Bella Abzug

#down #laundry #our #pedestal #room

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#ago #am #any #aware #captured

To make films is as boring as watching paint dry - you usually have to do little tiny bits here and there. You go off waiting for lighting, you come back - the energy dies. You hope you can find someone who can keep it going. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#bits #boring #come #dies #dry

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt. ↗

— Fred Allen

#form #income #income tax #laundry #like