#iv

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#duty #furnish #live #lives #mind

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. ↗

— Horace

#living #life

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#activities #again #apart #fly #minds

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#clog #delivers #every #fatal #help

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#duty #escape #mind #obscurity #questioning

Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#conception #course #created #general #guided

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#writing-craft #life

Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#care #diagnosis #doctor #end-of-life #less

Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#enough #hard #keep #living #mum

I've become a captive of my own ambitions. ↗

— Patsy Cline

#captive #i #my own #own