#is

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#conduct-of-life #double-standards #hypocrisy #morality #social-norms

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#escapism #life #reading #life

If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother? ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#effort #extreme #goals #life #performance

Live a good life. In the end it is not the years in a life, but the life in the years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#enjoy-life #misattributed #life

Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says you’re worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#eating-disorder #madness #surrender #voice #worthless

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#wisdom #life

The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain. ↗

— Tim Scott

#because #black #black community #called #community

At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become. ↗

— Leo Babauta

#life #questions #wisdom #life

i like scars, they remind you of things ↗

— Nirrimi Joy Hakanson

#life #memory #pain #past #scars

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us. ↗

— Ken Levine

#consequences #decisions #life #life