#lit

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality. ↗

— Les Brown

#making #reality #responsibility #take #you

Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities. ↗

— Christine Lahti

#capabilities #challenges #confident #face #faced

I played in Joe Louis in a playoff game. I played there when the roof caved in for half a season. The facility is great for basketball because it goes straight up, so you feel like the fans are on top of you. ↗

— Bill Laimbeer

#because #facility #fans #feel #game

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#hundred #life #life is a #mortality #percent

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#change #deeds #fail #failing #how

There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#event #fact #label #political #schizophrenia

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

#cause #greatest #politician #render #serviceable

Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in a graveyard, in a scarcely dug grave, only recently inhabited by withered flesh. This truth, which is banal enough, unravels time and the face, holds up a mirror to me in which I cannot see myself without being overcome by a profound sadness that undermines one's whole being. The mirror has become the route through which my body reaches that state, in which it is crushed into the ground, digs a temporary grave, and allows itself to be drawn by the living roots that swarm beneath the stones. It is flattened beneath the weight of that immense sadness which few people have the privilege of knowing. So I avoid mirrors. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#eating-disorder #eating-disorders #mirrors #poetry #self-esteem

Politics is a blood sport. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#politics

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently. ↗

— Harry A. Blackmun

#choose #citizens #differently #disapproval #hearts