#others

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. ↗

— Alice Koller

#achievement #alone #aware #because #being

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#argue #certain #certain things #completely #compulsively

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. ↗

— Willem de Kooning

#forced #free #free will #his #others

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#books #condition #deal #equal #every

If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

#could #does #experiencing #got #how

Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything. ↗

— Helen Thomas

#after #campaign #comes #down #every

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol. ↗

— Todd Tiahrt

#buildings #burning #capitol #certainly #down

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#desire #expect #genuine #holiness #nothing

I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more. ↗

— Shania Twain

#choice #growing #growing up #had #i

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#am #give #hope #i #i am