#life

Make life easier by living in the present and believing in the future. ↗

— Jonas Eriksson

#philosophy #life

Mortgages were less about getting people into property than getting them into debt. Someone had to absorb the surplus supply of credit. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#life

[Morgana to Janie] Now get out of my way, or finish life as a pile of cinders. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#life

To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#tyranny #life

Love comes and goes so fast! It comes like a tropical storm and it goes like the wind in winter ↗

— Aditia Rinaldi

#love #monsoon #life

Thomas More: Will, I'd trust you with my life. But not your principles. You see, we speak of being anchored to our principles. But if the weather turns nasty you up with an anchor and let it down where there's less wind, and the fishing's better. And "Look," we say, "look, I'm anchored! To my principles! ↗

— Robert Bolt

#morals #principles #values #life

Life is real only then, when "I am". ↗

— G.I. Gurdjieff

#life

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless? ↗

— Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

#ichschmertz #weariness #life

Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there! ↗

— Henry James

#human #life #monkeys #life

Question for your life: If there were a fountain machine that dispensed destruction instead of soda, would you grab an extra large cup? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#destroy #destruction #destructive #fountain-machine #grab