#las

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials ↗

— Jean Rhys

#literary-fiction #life

For now. But if I ever decide you're useless, you are a dead man." To be killed by you is to be desired more than a life excluded from your service." Bravo." Her Imperial Viciousness laughed with genuine feeling. "Bra-vo! ↗

— Frank Beddor

#dead #glass #imperial #looking #man

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#begins #classroom #closest #convey #family

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken. ↗

— Alan Sillitoe

#life-lessons #reflection #working-class #life

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards. ↗

— Nick Webb

#judgment #labels #nick-webb #personality #wish-you-were-here

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#away #creep #drop #earth #liberty

Your best teacher is your last mistake. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#best #last #mistake #your

I think I need a little break. I've got a two-year old. I'll be part of The Leisure Class for a while. ↗

— Lauren Ambrose

#class #got #i #i think #leisure

While complying can be an effective strategy for physical survival, it's a lousy one for personal fulfillment. Living a satisfying life requires more than simply meeting the demands of those in control. Yet in our offices and our classrooms we have way too much compliance and way too little engagement. The former might get you through the day, but only the latter will get you through the night. ↗

— Daniel H. Pink

#compliance #engagement #fulfillment #survival #workplace

Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one; all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #hodge #life