#ngo

How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's where human life is found. - (Houseboy + Maid, in Tales from Djakarta) ↗

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#houseboy-and-maid #jongos-dan-babu #life-between-eating-and-shitting #pramoedya #tales-from-djakarta

The langour of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost! The zest, the generous affections, the illusions, the despair, all the traditional attributes of Youth - all save this come and go with us through life...These things are a part of life itself; but languor - the relaxation of yet unwearied sinews, the mind sequestered and self-regarding, the sun standing still in the heavens and the earth throbbing to our own pulse - that belongs to Youth alone and dies with it. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#life #youth #life

I snorted powdered flamingoes while I pondered love. I sat at the bar two hours waiting for my ice on the rocks to melt so I could drink it and leave, but it was like my ex wife’s heart—it was just too frigid to melt. So I called up a midget, buckled myself in on his back, and had him give me a ride home. Ah, but that’s life, no?
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— Jarod Kintz

#bar #drink #ex-wife #flamingoes #frigid

When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity. ↗

— Cedric Nye

#arizona #horror #insanity #love #love-lost

How do I feel today? I feel as unfit as an unfiddle, And it is the result of a certain turbulence in the mind and an uncertain burbulence in the middle. What was it, anyway, that angry thing that flew at me? I am unused to banshees crying Boo at me. Your wife can’t be a banshee— Or can she? ↗

— Ogden Nash

#drinking #hangover #marriage #poetry #relationships

Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight! ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#jingo #vetinari #vimes #war #men

Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#america #business #dangote #ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #life

Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#stealing #thieves #warning #sin

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want. ↗

— Iyanla Vanzant

#letting-go

Oh it's the bingo playing wizard I love you guys so much, but not as much as my bird and my bingo! ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#kevin #one-direction #quickfire #love