#red

But as I stood there dressed in a cute black pants suit and white button-up shirt and heels, I felt completely out of place. Not necessarily because of the clothes, but…I just don’t belong there. I can’t put my finger on it, but that Monday and the rest of that week when I woke up, got dressed and walked into that store, something was itching the back part of my consciousness. I couldn’t hear the actual words, but it felt like: This is your life, Camryn Bennett. This is your life. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#j-a-redmerski #life #out-of-place #the-edge-of-never #life

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on. ↗

— Mukesh Ambani

#count #go #growth #hundred #i

You will go through your life thinking there was a day in second grade that you must have missed, when the grown-ups came in and explained, everything important to other kids. they said, 'Look, you're human, you're going to feel isolated and afraid a lot of the time, nad have bad self-esteem, and feel uniquely ruined, but here is the magic phrase that will take this feeling away. It will be like a feather that will lift you out of that fear and self-consciousness every single time, all through your life.' And then they told the cildren who were there that day the magic phrase that everyone else in the world knows about and uses when feeling blue, which only you don't know, because you were home sick the day the grown-ups told the children the way the whole world works. But there was not such a day in school. No one got the instructions. That is the secret of life. Everyone is flailing around, winging it most of the time, trying to find the way out, or through, or up, without a map. This lack of instruction manual is how most people develop compassion, and how they figure out to show up, care, help and serve, as the only way of filling up and being free. Otherwise you gorw up to be someone who needs to dominate and shame others so no one will know that you weren't there the day the instructions were passed out. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#some-assembly-required #life

You're my sunshine, my rain and my evening stars I feel as though I was living in the shadows and you have entered my life in a blaze of color and light which as illuminated my very existence. ↗

— Marie Coulson

#layla-jennings #life

Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?" Abbot Mortimer stared calmly into Cluny's savage eye. "I will never bend my knee on my own behalf. However, if I thought I could save the life of one of my friends I would gladly fall down on both knees. But I know you, Cluny, better than you know yourself. There is not a scrap of pity or mercy in your heart, only a burning desire for vengeance. Therefore, I will not kneel to one who is consumed by evil. ↗

— Brian Jacques

#kneel #redwall #life

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid. ↗

— Amy Waldman

#self-confident #life

You don't deserve Jack. You don't deserve to sleep. You don't deserve to live. ↗

— Cat Clarke

#laine-s-fave #life #life

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another. ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#book #bothered #ever #fang #good

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

But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#education #education