#iv

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#body #brings #circumstances #confesses #does

The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#boredom #controlled #creative #creative man #directed

I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm a closet Amberholic. Please help me! ↗

— Amber Benson

#again #closet #computer #freak #front

You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization. ↗

— Sudhir Kakar

#words-to-live-by #love

All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing. ↗

— P.D. James

#murder #pd-james #the-murder-room #love

Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? ↗

— Richard Wright

#richard-wright #the-outsider #life

There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#privacy #secret #wisdom #faith

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#books #cliche #come #different #diverse

Crazy isn't a condition it's a place and it exists somewhere between Love and Oblivion ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life #love #oblivion #philosophy #reality

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves. ↗

— Allen West

#assumes #best #better #care #each