#ness

Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#kissing #life #sylvia-plath #business

I’m busy, you’re busy, everybody’s busy. I’ve got a lot I want to say to you, though.” “All right,” Pia told her. “Hit me with it.” “First, I’m so sorry about what my uncle Urien did to you guys. I hate him, he killed my family, and we’re going to cut off his head, and then I have to be Queen, but before that happens let’s do lunch, okay? ↗

— Thea Harrison

#pia #tricks #business

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand. ↗

— Alexandra Bracken

#business

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. ↗

— Phil Jackson

#business #job #play #sports #team

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work. ↗

— Robin S. Sharma

#personal-development #business

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#freedom-of-speech #liberty #business

It’s like a cotillion, this partners business, except with killing.” “So, exactly like a cotillion,” said Simon. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#business

After the group vet appointment--during which Lyle scratched the vet, the vet tech, and some poor woman minding her own business in the waiting room--we went back to Sabrina's and re-released the cats to their natural habitat. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#humor #business

Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening themselves up to hate. The more you deny yourself the freedom to be angry, the more you will hate. Let yourself be angry, and hate will disintegrate, and when hate disintegrates, forgiveness prevails! The more you deny that you are angry, in attempts to be "holy" the more inhuman you will become, and the more inhuman you will become, the harder it will be to forgive. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#forgiveness #hate #humanism #humanity #inspirational

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning. ↗

— John Dewey

#changing #comes #each #endeavor #experience