#minding

I have to keep reminding myself that I am their mother. Sometimes we are sitting at home and I feel like we are waiting for our mom to come home. ↗

— Ruby Wax

#come #feel #home #i #i am

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. ↗

— Plato

#concerns #justice #means #meddling #men

I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#down #go #hobbies #i #i can

[...] when you look at the world, you put on the goggles of custom, habit and tribal wisdom lest the truth make you insane [...] you see the world reflected in your own image; you see yourself reflected to the image of the world (...) ↗

— David Zindell

#reminding #life

A billion and a half human souls, who had been given the techniques of music and the graphic arts, and the theory of technology, now had the others: philosophy and logic and love; sympathy, empathy, forbearance, unity, in the idea of their species rather than in their obedience; membership in harmony with all life everywhere. A people with such feelings and their derived skills cannot be slaves. As the light burst upon them, there was only one concentration possible to each of them—to be free, and the accomplished feeling of being free. As each found it, he was an expert in freedom, and expert succeeded expert, transcended expert, until (in a moment) a billion and a half human souls had no greater skill than the talent of freedom. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

#reminding #art

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#perhaps #reminding #thing #you #yourself

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#given #irish #jobs #majority #members

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else. ↗

— Adam Arkin

#connected #else #empowered #everybody #everybody else

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#provocative #business

Mind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend. ↗

— Anita Diamant

#friend #friendship #minding-his-own-busines #business