#ife

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#belong #declare #devoted #family #great

They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life. ↗

— Black Elk

#bear #been #brought #chaser #days

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#blame #control #decide #destiny #ecology

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. ↗

— Epictetus

#hope #life #neither #nor #rely

The omnipresent process of sex, as it is woven into the whole texture of our man's or woman's body, is the pattern of all the process of our life. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#into #life #man #omnipresent #our

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman. ↗

— James Ellroy

#about #absolutely #am #being #brilliant

I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again. ↗

— Tracey Emin

#anything #come #fragile #got #i

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day. ↗

— Jesse Eisenberg

#behave #comfortable #day #feels #get

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. ↗

— George Eliot

#began #face #life #loving #mother