#mat

The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#possessions #readers #reading #things #life

Because Margo knows the secret of leaving, the secret I have only just now learned; leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots. ↗

— John Green

#grow-roots #important #leaving #something-matters #life

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. ↗

— Paul Simon

#die #following #forever #grow #mature

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old) ↗

— C.G. Jung

#transformation #life

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#intelligence #materialism #intelligence

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life. ↗

— George Monbiot

#ecology #environment #progress #life

To live meant feeding my former self to my current self. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#past #present #transformation #life

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#darwinism #humanism #materialism #naturalism #sin

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark. ↗

— Kelli Jae Baeli

#daylight #individuation #maturity #philosophy-of-life #psychology

The happiest people don’t bother about whether life is unfair. They just concentrate on what they have. ↗

— Andrew Matthews

#happiness #happiness-in-hard-times #life