#fe

Life is short. Everyone's forever planning for the future. No one lives in the moment anymore. ↗

— Dick Houston

#life

In the eyeball there is a clash between creation and reflection. The two-way globes of sight are magical revolving doors where the creative spirit meets itself in the created spirit. The eye that surveys the universe is the universe's own eye. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#life

When you battle with your conscience and lose, you win. -Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist (1906-1998) ↗

— Henny Youngman

#life-lessons #humor

The kipper was in a race for it's life, and it knew it. It used all the skill its Maker had given it and drew the creature far away from the craft, to be sacrifice in the end. It was a fitting task for the kipper. But...there is a thing about monsters. They remember. ↗

— Kathy Frias

#life

I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so. ↗

— John M. Ford

#simplicity #theatre #life

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf. ↗

— Geoff Dyer

#life

Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#fact #reality #life

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life and the labors of life reduce themselves. ↗

— Edwin Way Teale

#life

I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#philosophy #stoic #life

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#philosophy #tea #life