#ness

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#business

The day I die, I’ll be too busy thinking to notice” he waved his hand as he left the ship. - Nelson Moon, shipwright and designer of the Altered Moon. Current location: Cantankerous Base, Planet Tarris, Arzian Alliance ↗

— A.Z. Kelvin

#az-kelvin #nelson-moon #rise-of-the-altered-moon #sci-fi #science-fiction

People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity, this other country. ↗

— David Duchovny

#celebrities #celebrity #country #death #human

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water. ↗

— Karen Duffy

#beach #concealing #illness #keeping #like

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live? ↗

— Karen Duffy

#body #care #could #did #going

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#freedom #god #god-s-will #selfishness #spiritual-paths

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence. ↗

— Joel Edgerton

#about #actor #also #always #around

The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with knowledge, and everything to do with simple awareness; awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, all the time, that we have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: "This is water." "This is water." It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#death

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared. ↗

— Guy Finley

#degree #feared #strength #us #weakness

He’d never be able to touch her, and as passionate as she was, she would eventually need a man who could. He’d never had to worry about these things before because he’d never been with a woman. Not even before his possession. He’d been too busy then, too involved in his job. Maybe he needed to join Workaholics Anonymous, he thought dryly. He had to be the only millennia-old virgin in history. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#lords-of-the-underworld #virginity #workaholics #business