#life

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#life

I never want to be a passive observer of life's possibilities. ↗

— Courtney Pierce

#motivational #life

You must live a very free life." "Me?" she laughed. "I am not who swoops out of the sky to rain fire on pirates!" "Yeah, but before this I never did much. I mean I did a lot, but...I lived in a room at a university, and my whole world was in that little room. There was this world inside my head." De la Fitte studied his head as if she could see through his skull to a little globe inside it somewhere. ↗

— Sam Starbuck

#america #engineer #fire #london #pirates

And so when you see a man often wearing the robe of office, when you see one whose name is famous in the Forum, do not envy him; those things are bought at the price of life. They will waste all their years, in order that they may have one year reckoned by their name. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#fame #life #shortness-of-life #life

إن الانسان لا يمكن ان يكون شريفًا داخل محيط من الفساد و الفسق، الشرف لايمكن أن يكون فردياً بأى حال من الاحوال،حتى لو تحلى به الانسان و اعتنقه، فالشرف كما يبدو لي الان؛ لا يتحقق بالاختيار فقط ولا بالممارسة فحسب و الا فأنا شريك بالصمت في هذه الجريمة. ↗

— خيري شلبي

#human #life #جريمة #شرف #فساد

...whose number one rule in life is: ignore all the ordinary people. ↗

— Margaret Willey

#life

I wonder which is preferable--to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of them, or to have them sucked out of you, every paragraph, every sentence, every word of them, so at the end you're depleted of all that was once as precious to you as hoarded gold, as close to you as your skin--everything that was of the deepest importance to you, everything that made you cringe and wish to conceal, everything that belonged to you alone--and must spend the rest of your days like an empty sack flapping in the wind, an empty sack branded with a bright fluorescent label so that everyone will know what sort of secrets used to be inside you? ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent in search for the truth and neglecting the physical living, is just that higher form of human existence. ↗

— Alija Izetbegović

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We are crucified to the world, and the world must be as crucified to us. It esteems us as fools, let us esteem it as mad. ↗

— Saint Francis De Sales De Sales

#devotional #life

Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special. There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#maid #perspective #sight #value #life