#lit

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there. ↗

— Bob Edwards

#admit #after #always #gets #man

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#decisions #everybody #having #life #makes

I've spent a lot of words on my own mortality. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#lot #mortality #my own #own #spent

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#before #even #good #had #less

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#either #mind #reality #study #understand

Newspapers are a bad habit, the reading equivalent of junk food. What happens to me is that I seize upon an issue in the news—the issue is the moral/philosophical, political/intellectual equivalent of a cheeseburger with everything on it; but for the duration of my interest in it, all my other interests are consumed by it, and whatever appetites and capacities I may have had for detachment and reflection are suddenly subordinate to this cheeseburger in my life! I offer this as self-criticism; but what it means to be "political" is that you welcome these obsessions with cheeseburgers—at great cost to the rest of your life. ↗

— John Irving

#junk-food #newspapers #politics #food

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#be happy #call #everybody #good #happy

I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country. ↗

— John Edwards

#carolina #country #defeated #good #good thing

Worship means reverence and humility it means revering your real self and humbling delusions. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#delusions #humbling #humility #means #real

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that. ↗

— Greg Egan

#being #fastest #new #ones #only