#iv

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#good #got #individual #jordan #michael

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#survive #life

Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#life

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms? ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#honesty #life #sharing #time #life

Bei gleicher Umgebung lebt doch jeder in einer anderen Welt. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#perspective #world #life

Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug. ↗

— Dash Shaw

#living #mothers #suffering #life

To tell you the truth, though, I still haven't made up my mind whether I shall publish at all. Tastes differ so widely, and some people are so humourless, so uncharitable, and so absurdly wrong-headed, that one would probably do far better to relax and enjoy life than worry oneself to death trying to instruct or entertain a public which will only despise one's efforts, or at least feel no gratitude for them. ↗

— Thomas More

#creativity #writing #death

It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there. ↗

— William Golding

#later-in-life #truth #writing #life

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere. [Interview with Oprah Winfrey, June 5, 2007] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#fiction #goals #guidance #novels #perfection