#ife

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#appreciate #clever #cleverness #enough #his

In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self. ↗

— William Penn

#before #body #companion #friend #hast

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#developed #everyone #experience #far #his

There is no time frame on living life, only the frame we place about ourselves to hinder our lives from living to its fullest. ↗

— Najeev Raj Nadarajah

#inspirational-attitude #life-experience #living #living-to-the-fullest #success

Basically, I go to the local farmer's market and decide to what to cook then, depending on what I find. Either my wife or I cook, and we usually finish a bottle or two of wine by the time we are done cooking and eating. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#bottle #by the time #cook #cooking #decide

the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#life

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. ↗

— Walker Percy

#alive #another #dead #few #friendly

If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d've done something different, but I was myself and the world was the world, so I was silent. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#world #life

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#life

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146) ↗

— Julia Cameron

#dying #life #living #death