#rio

Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#life

Life is too short to try and glue together broken plates that were cheap in the first place. ↗

— Cory Basil

#dishes #life #plates #priorities #life

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it. ↗

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#krishna #life #palace-of-illusions #panchaali #seriousness

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love. In the morning mist, hazy and amorous, London was delirious. London squinted as it floated along, milky pink, without caring where it was going. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#delirium #london #love #life

Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#life

Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence. ↗

— David Deida

#way-of-a-superior-man #life

Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live. ↗

— Lavinia Spalding

#living-vicariously #rolf-potts #travel #vagabonding #life

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling ↗

— Linus Pauling

#linus-pauling #the-artist-s-way #life

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way that any definition is liable to be challenged, but one must draw a distinction between them, since two different and even opposing ideas are involved. By ‘patriotism’ I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality. ↗

— George Orwell

#patriotism #life

The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest. ↗

— George Eliot

#everyday-life #life