#ife

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#been #chiefly #credited #excellent #fate

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#basically #being #character #characters #come

My brother is nine years older than I am. He's a psychology professor, I'm an actor, and so we look at life in two different ways. We thought it would be interesting to come together and take our unique perspectives and share them with everybody else. ↗

— Matt Czuchry

#am #brother #come #different #different ways

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#life #philosophy #courage

The only way you will ever permanently take control of your financial life is to dig deep and fix the root problem. ↗

— Suze Orman

#deep #dig #ever #financial #fix

I had a dream about you. You were you, but you were many—a multitude of mannequins, each named Manny. And I was me, but I was Dark Jar Tin Zoo, and as such I made love to you—all of you. Then I woke up alone, naked, cuddling a mannequin I named after you who smells like you, because I spray it with the same fragrance you used to wear. Is that crazy? No, I didn’t think so either. 
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— Dora J. Arod

#dreams #funny #humor #life #relationships

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that. ↗

— Bobby Orr

#environments #going #just #life #like

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#based #believe #change #economic #economic system

I didn't know that anything was wrong with me until the media got involved in my life. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#got #i #involved #know #life

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#because #believe #eyes #i #know