#me

When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me. ↗

— Rihanna

#am #back #caught #enjoyed #get

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed. ↗

— Bob Riley

#during #hard #hard times #hero #heroes

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism. ↗

— Bob Riley

#believed #i #long #patriotism #pinnacle

An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#compatible #conflict #early #early work #inevitably

His failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is. ↗

— Bridget Riley

#does #else #even #failures #his

The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. ↗

— James Whitcomb Riley

#come #determination #discouragement #energy #enthusiasm

It is not enough to be busy... The question is: what are we busy about? ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#productivity #time #truth #business

Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness. ↗

— Terry Riley

#eating #food #get #highest #like

Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. ↗

— Terry Riley

#control #everyone #kind #mode #own

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#answers #day #distant #even #into