#les

Preparation was a term I was to hear more and more. It had another more sinister meaning. If you were prepared, it meant you were doped. ↗

— David Millar

#inspirational #life-lessons #inspirational

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little. ↗

— Thomas A. Dorgan

#inspirational #life #struggles #inspirational

A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#devotional-classics #hard-times #inspirational-quotes #inspirational

Your life have to be filled with interesting tales that it should not bore your grandchildren, when you tell them someday. ↗

— Pradeepa Pandiyan

#family #freedom #inspirational #journey #life

It's time to stop following the yellow brick road, use your God given brain, and quit chasing rainbows, because the truth is life's hard, but can be oh so sweet when you choose to own it. ↗

— L.M. Fields

#life-lesson #truth #inspirational

In this Life, we are given a choice to accept or reject our Lessons. If we accept them, we become a better person. If we reject the Lessons, we become a bitter person. ↗

— KoKo Nervelli

#overcome-obstacles #home

...it was not simply a matter of musical taste; whether you preferred the Beatles or [the Rolling] Stones said much about your personality and character. People who were happy, intelligent, well-adjusted, popular, clean, decent and punctual tended to be Beatles fans. Those who were evil, cretinous, scabby, drug-ridden, filthy, criminal perverts liked the Stones. As for your author, I personally take no side in the controversy, remaining strictly neutral. ↗

— Lewis Grossberger

#rolling-stones #intelligence

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. ↗

— Eugene S. Wilson

#intelligence #learning #obstacles #quest #resolute

George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge ↗

— John le Carré

#british-intelligence #george-smiley #ian-bannon #ian-richardson #moles

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#intellect #life-lessons #reality #life