#or

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#focus #focusing-illusion #heuristics #importance #priorities

Life...as God intended it enables us to live above the drag of fear, superstition, shame, pessimism, guilt, anxiety, worry, and all the negativity that keeps people from seizing each day as a gift from Him. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#fear #god #worry #life

A first-rate college library with a comfortable campus around it is a fine milieu for a writer. There is, of course, the problem of educating the young. I remember how once, between terms, not at Cornell, a student brought a transistor set with him into the reading room. He managed to state that one, he was playing “classical” music; that two, he was doing it “softly”; and that three, “there were not many readers around in summer.” I was there, a one-man multitude. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#cornell #education

Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton. ↗

— Tom Holt

#office #tired #work #life

I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smoothe and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success. ↗

— Luci Shaw

#god #pain #life

Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it. ↗

— Eugene Mirman

#humor #parties #prom #school #sex

It was no ape, neither was it a man. It was some shambling horror spawned in the mysterious, nameless jungles of the south, where strange life teemed in the reeking rot without the dominance of man, and drums thundered in temples that had never known the tread of a human foot. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#evocative #horror #pulp #life

ROBERT ROTH: Going against the tide, no matter how gracefully, will beat you up after a while — all artists know this. ↗

— Greg Prato

#music

Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory. ↗

— John Passaro

#gift #handicap #keep-moving-forward #wrestling #life

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day. ↗

— Robert Hass

#half #hour #life #take #time