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A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal. ↗

— Andy Grove

#career #journalism #lost #suddenly

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#writing-life #life

...we have hyphenated Americans: African-American, Asian-Americans, Latin-Americans, Jewish-Americans and Native-Americans. Publicly they are expected to live to the right of the hyphen, but privately they can choose the left. In public, they are expected to speak a common language, but at home they may converse in ethnic and religious dialects. If the ethnic community is assimilated, life is lived as an American. (p 64-65). ↗

— Alvin Dueck and Kevin Reimer

#diversity #life

I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual. ↗

— Susan Lendroth

#books #life

It may be considered folly by common opinion but this refusal to destroy life unnecessarily, this reverence for it, must become a deeply implanted part of his ethical standard. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#nonviolence #vegetarianism #life

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for. ↗

— Lou Gherig

#life

The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected ↗

— Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

#life

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#rules-of-life #winning #life

The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became the troubadour of Lady Poverty. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christ #christianity #francis-of-assisi #jesus-shock

I felt knots untie themselves, knots I didn't know were there. I could already tell there were things happening deep inside of me that were irreversible. Is there any scarier word than "irreversible"? It's a hiss of a word, full of side effects and mutilations. Severe tire damage - no backing up. Falling in love with Renee felt that way. ↗

— Rob Sheffield

#love #life