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I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else's life." I shrugged again, and smiled. "This is my life," I said. "It doesn't seem like the wrong one. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#hair #haircut #identity #life #self

There are two influences ever present in the world. One is constructive and elevating and comes from our Heavenly Father; the other is destructive and debasing and comes from Lucifer. We have our agency and make our own choice in life subject to these unseen powers. There is a division line well defined that separates the Lord's territory from Lucifer's. If we live on the Lord's side of the line Lucifer cannot come there to influence us, but if we cross the line into his territory we are in his power. By keeping the commandments of the Lord we are safe on His side of the line, but if we disobey His teachings we voluntarily cross into the zone of temptation and invite the destruction that is ever present there. Knowing this, how anxious we should always be to live on the Lord's side of the line. ↗

— George Albert Smith

#divine-protection #peace #temptation #life

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. ↗

— Agha Hasan Abedi

#definition #developing #done #getting #management

Balla come se nessuno stesse guardando, ama come se nessuno ti avesse mai ferito, canta come se nessuno stesse ascoltando, vivi come se il paradiso fosse sulla terra. ↗

— William W. Purkey

#life #paradiso #terra #life

Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest? ↗

— Pascal Mercier

#fulfillment #life #life

Life's a party. So smile and eat shit and pretend it's fucking caviar. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#life #sarcasm #humor

When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#creative-writing #life #meaningless #meaninglessness #modern-life

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it. ↗

— Virginia Euwer Wolff

#hard-times #life #the-way-of-life #tough #life

It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#causes #charity #donations #giving #holidays

Why, Yrael?” it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. “Why?” “Life,” said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. “Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon. ↗

— Garth Nix

#mogget #yrael #life