#live

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it. ↗

— Leon Spinks

#got #hit #i #lived #lot

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#direct #drawback #fame #fancy #great

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#consent #entire #free #guidance #lives

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#had #i #lives #painter #parallel

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#amen #humbly #instead #kept #know

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever. ↗

— Mattie Stepanek

#happen #live #need #sad #sad things

I wouldn't describe that "position" as "parasitic." I'd describe that experience as "edifying." I don't merely write from a critical intellectual distance. I actually live around here. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#around #critical #describe #distance #experience

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#celebrating #chosen #darkness #deliver #fear

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#bread #creature #lives #man #primarily

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#dies #hard #man #obstinate #outlives