#ife

The more bare a life is, the more we fear change. ↗

— Graham Greene

#greeneland #life #mutability #change

There are several ways to perform almost any act - an efficient, workable, artistic way and a careless, indifferent, sloppy way. Care and artistry are worth the trouble. They can be a satisfaction to the practitioner and a joy to all beholders. ↗

— Helen Nearing

#craftsmanship #life

You never have to change anything you get up in the middle of the night to write. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#change

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#gender #life #change

You have to see this,” he said. For the rest of my life, the men I loved or would love—it was always this way: *You must read/see/listen to/ think about this*. And I would. Read or watch or listen or think. It was one way of becoming the person I wanted to be. ↗

— Suzanne Scanlon

#taste #life

Forget it,” I said. “Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he’d still be preferable to listening to the two of you. ↗

— John Zakour

#sci-fi #sci-fi-humour-comedy #life

Time debt is as big a problem as financial debt. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#debt #self-improvement #time-investment #life

My soul absorbs you, my mind inhales your essence, you confirm my life. ↗

— Al Cash

#essence #inhale #soul #life

Life is a foggy road. You may come across anything on the road. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#life

All progress requires change, but not all change is progress. ↗

— unknown or Cecil R. Cross II

#change