#live

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. ↗

— Chin-Ning Chu

#chasing #dreams #life #lived #others

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead. ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#aristocracy #been #chicken #cut #dead

There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play. ↗

— Brian Moore

#chosen #comes #finding #happens #like

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#could #live #machines #martini #sets

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. ↗

— Hayao Miyazaki

#buy #cheaper #live #make #movies

I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story. ↗

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

#benefit #bored #character #doing #feel

I started out pursuing an acting career out of college when I lived in Los Angeles. When I got an entry into broadcasting, I preferred it. I liked being me, rather than dressing up to be someone else. Now I'm 30 and doing a career of my own and have been in this career for eight years. ↗

— Eleanor Mondale

#angeles #been #being #broadcasting #career

Though we may not necessarily forfeit our lives in service to our God, we can certainly demonstrate our love for Him by how well we serve Him. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#demonstrate #forfeit #god #him #how

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#characteristic #die #double #impossibility #live

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#black #black coffee #carrots #coffee #diet