#in

How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it? ↗

— Simon Cheshire

#life #passion #life

I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of...of what? Light? Life? Cheese? ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#hope #life #loneliness #school #life

Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman". ↗

— George Eliot

#ministry #popularity #life

Maybe the Truth of the Meaning of Life, Ancient and Arcane Knowledge of the Great Unknowable Universe is handed down only to persons presenting with the correct brand-name footwear. If you turn up wearing Shoe City knock-offs, you don't get to pass Go and collect Infinite Enlightenment. ↗

— Tracy Engelbrecht

#enlightenment #meaning-of-life #shoes #life

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new. ↗

— Michael Eisner

#cannot #change #current #entertainment #escape

Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life. ↗

— Nikki Gemmell

#loneliness #solitude #life

Pasmo sempre quando acabo qualquer coisa. Pasmo e desolo-me. O meu instinto de perfeição deveria inibir-me de acabar; deveria inibir-me até de dar começo. Mas distraio-me e faço. O que consigo é um produto, em mim, não de uma aplicação de vontade, mas de uma cedência dela. Começo porque não tenho força para pensar; acabo porque não tenho alma para suspender. Este livro é a minha cobardia. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#inner-self #life #solitude #life

There will come a time in every girl's life when she realizes that your ex-girlfriend wasn't crazy. Actually, she was right (about you). ↗

— Nakia R. Laushaul

#inspiration #inspirational

Find the fountain of fuel of life! When you do, then right next to it... you'll see the best engine ever existed. ↗

— Toba Beta

#living-engine #life

As we hypnotically watch the steadily diminishing reserve of sand in life's hourglass, the instincts of a miser surface. Life is now savored, sipped as with a fine 19th Century French wine. ↗

— Joe L. Wheeler

#life #precious-life #wine #life