#life

Mine were informal mentors. They were all in my working life. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#life #mentors #mine #were #working

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul. ↗

— Geoffrey Fisher

#found #haven #interesting #know #life

I'll remind you of that someday , Maura says. "when you're married to a man who once looked into your eyes and promised to forsake all others. I'll remind of that after you've just had his baby and you have postpartum depression and feel as fat as cow and you are pumping milk into a plastic containers in the middle of the night while he's running around with some twenty-two-years old named Lissette. I'll remind you of that. Maura to Jess. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#family-life #motherhood #no #family

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#human #life #natural #death

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul. ↗

— Mark Edwards

#adult life #always #cleveland #grew #i

What my home life is like now is great. ↗

— Missy Elliot

#home #home life #life #like #now

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#book #emotional #feel #given #i

I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#crisis #cruise #i #just #life crisis

In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them? (Susan Barton) ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#others #philosophy #self-awareness #susan-barton #life

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#frailty #immortality #life #mortality #shortness-of-life