#pro

If you commit to giving more time than you have to spend, you will constantly be running from time debt collectors. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#commitments #debt #peace #productivity #time-debt

She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#starving-artist #suffering #writing #writing-process #life

After witnessing the inauguration ceremonies, I am compelled to state how deeply grateful and infinitely thankful and eternally blessed I am to and by God for the privilege of being born and for living out my life in this amazing country- The United States of America ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#divine-providence #providence #r-alan-woods #life

Mi succede sempre così, a me, coi problemi. Da lontano, mi fanno fare un sacco di discorsi complicati. Quando poi ci vediamo, troviamo sempre il modo di metterci d'accordo. ↗

— Diego De Silva

#problemi #vita #life

The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away. ↗

— David Millar

#life #problems #things #life

Perché la vita è fatta soprattutto di patteggiamenti. Di situazioni in cui – questa è la rivelazione che spiazza – ti scopri capace di una comprensione al ribasso che normalmente non ti spieghi, quando la riconosci negli altri. E capisci alcune cose. ↗

— Diego De Silva

#life #patteggiamento #problemi #vita #life

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book? ↗

— Julian Barnes

#life #protagonist #reality #life

Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#moments #providence #sacred #life

...I finally went back to my seat in the second row and sat there doing what I've done throughout my professional life: I tried to think, first, how to make credible a somewhat extreme, if not outright ridiculous story, and, next, how, after telling it, to fortify and defend myself from the affronted who read into the story an intention having perhaps to do less with the author's perversity than with their own. ↗

— Philip Roth

#professional-life #to-fortify-and-defend-myself #life

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#poetry #prose #life