#ours

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play. ↗

— Robert Anderson

#conviction #course #heart #him #his

My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to the end of being. If he tries, he is submerged within a "private being" which has meaning only for himself. Now there is no meaning for a lone individual: bing alone would of itself reject the "private being" if it saw it as such (if I wish my life to have meaning for me, it is necessary that it have meaning for others: no one would dare give to life a meaning which he alone would perceive, from which life in its entirety would escape, except within himself). At the extreme limit of the "possible", it is true, there is nonsense . . . but only of that which had a prior sense: this is fulguration, even "apotheosis" of nonsense. But I don't attain the extreme limit on my own and, in actual fact, I can't believe the extreme limit attained, for I never remain there. If I had to be the only one having attained it (assuming that I had . . .), it would be as thought it had not occurred. For if there subsisted a satisfaction, as small as I can imagine it to be, it would distance me as much from the extreme limit. I cannot for a moment cease to incite myself to attain the extreme limit, and cannot make a distinction between myself and those with whom I desire to communicate. ~George Bataille, "Inner Experience" pg. 42 ↗

— Georges Bataille

#being #being-yourself #communication #experience #extreme-limit

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. ↗

— Barbara de Angelis

#away #balance #give #how #moments

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#hard #hours #lot #need #practicing

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#been #collected #faithfulness #had #into

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself. ↗

— Maurice Baring

#deadly #difference #enjoy #fun #games

I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking you to trust me. Trust yourself. ↗

— Charles Yu

#trust-yourself #life

When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#also #arnold #because #dumb #even

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#development

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#others #ourselves #out #poetry #quarrel