#ron

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed. ↗

— Criss Jami

#business #businesses #careers #college #decisions

As with many life-altering events, an autoimmune illness is almost guaranteed to cause you to re-evaluate your priorities. ↗

— Joan Friedlander

#chronic-illness #life

He remembered the darkness and despair she'd suffered during her long years as a prisoner, but he also recalled the deep, unquenchable joy she took from the world around her; and he knew that given the choice, Wilamena would suffer all she had and more rather than sacrifice one day of being alive. It was just as his father had said. She chose life, all of it. ↗

— John Stephens

#pain #sacrifice #the-fire-chronicle #life

They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black. ↗

— John Selden

#am #black #colors #i #i am

This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#seryozha #vronsky #life

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that. ↗

— Philip C. Plait

#life

She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#irony #life #life

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#irony #justice #punishment #life

You're so young... Are you sure that's what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend? ↗

— Peter Cameron

#peter-cameron #life

What you need to learn, children, is the difference between right and wrong in every area of life. And once you learn the difference, you must always choose the right. ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#life