#mean

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time. ↗

— Renee Fleming

#everybody #i #learning #mean #never

The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean. ↗

— John M. Ford

#decide #happening #ideal #me #mean

-i was "far and away"-riding my motorcycle along an american back road, skiing through the snowy Quebec woods, or lying awake in a backwater motel. the theme i was grappling with was nothing less than the Meaning of Life, and i was pretty sure i had defined it: love and respect. love and respect, love and respect-i have been carrying those words around with me for two years, daring to consider that perhaps they convey the real meaning of life. beyond basic survival needs, everybody wants to be loved and respected. and neither is any good without the other. love without respect can be as cold as pity; respect without love can be as grim as fear. love and respect are the values in life that most contribute to "the pursuit of happiness"-and after, they are the greatest legacy we can leave behind. it's an elegy you'd like to hear with your own ears: "you were loved and respected." if even one person can say that about you, it's a worthy achievement, and if you can multiply that many times-well, that is true success. among materialists, a certain bumper sticker is emblematic: "he who dies with the most toys wins!" well, no-he or she who dies with the most love and respect wins... then there's love and respect for oneself-equally hard to achieve and maintain. most of us, deep down, are not as proud of ourselves as we might pretend, and the goal of bettering ourselves-at least partly by earning the love and respect of others-is a lifelong struggle. Philo of Alexandria gave us that generous principle that we have somehow succeeded in mostly ignoring for 2,000 years: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ↗

— Neil Peart

#equality

But as an adult working in the fashion industry, I struggle with materialism. And I'm one of the least materialistic people that exist, because material possessions don't mean much to me. They're beautiful, I enjoy them, they can enhance your life to a certain degree, but they're ultimately not important. ↗

— Tom Ford

#beautiful #because #certain #certain degree #degree

I don't think it's by any means an end to my career. ↗

— Mario Vazquez

#career #end #i #means #think

The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you. ↗

— Alan Coren

#act #cannot #designation #god #happen

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#best #clooney #could #disappear #george

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. ↗

— Harry Crews

#beautiful #closed #done #healed #hurt

I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years. ↗

— Jim Cramer

#been #buy #class #engines #enrichment

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that. ↗

— Hart Crane

#cultural #development #doubt #epic #foundation