#long

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#anything #attained #away #been #body

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#aging-well #growing-older #life #living-longer #age

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art. ↗

— Bliss Carman

#i #i can #joy #longer #me

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough. ↗

— Don Marquis

#anyone #enough #get #interesting #live

Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend. ↗

— Obie Trice

#eminem #friend #good #good friend #him

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. ↗

— John Adams

#inspirational-attitude #lifelong-learning #reading #attitude

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived. ↗

— Michelangelo

#deprived #evil #free #free will #given

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past. ↗

— Edward M. Purcell

#debt #earn #fellow #highest #highest reward

I justified it in so many ways. I had a very, very long and difficult struggle with my sexuality. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#had #i #justified #long #many

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people. ↗

— George Edward Moore

#does #how #like #long #matter