#life

Children get food shelter pocket money longholidays and love, all of it apparently free gratis, and most of the little fools think it's a sort of compensation for having been born. 'There are no strings on me!' They sang; but I, pinnoccio, saw the strings. Parents are impelled by the profit motive - nothing more, nothing less. For their attentions, they expected, from me, the immense dividend of greatness. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#greatness #life-purpose #parents #food

I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#different #different things #first #got #had

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#fine #life #living #make #worth

His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter to keep body and soul together. ↗

— Roger Housden

#food

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'. ↗

— Duke of Wellington

#called #endeavour #find #guess #hill

Never separate the life you live from the words you speak. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#live #never #separate #speak #words