#in

When the things you love exist only inside your memory they cannot be destroyed or taken from you. ↗

— Marina Tavares Dias

#life-and-living #life-lessons #love #memories #life

A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#living #life

It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#life

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist... ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#pedagogy #education

Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don't intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or no intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of control. ...Sometimes things take on a life of their own. You become powerless. There is nothing you can do to stop certain things from happening. ↗

— Dana Reinhardt

#life #pain #truth #life

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#living #life

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#discipline #emotion #life

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

#anything #likes #living #living alone #saying

Maybe it was because I didn't want to look at my life and see what is missing. Once you identify what you lack, then it's all you see anymore. Wanting something I couldn't have would only lead to unhappiness, so I tried to be content with what I had. ↗

— Lisa Mangum

#life

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember. ↗

— Phoebe Stone

#life #pain #saddness #true #life