#rove

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#proverb #life

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#discontentment #humanity #improvement #life #longing

The second mouse gets the cheese!" - The Inimitable Terry Pratchett ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#mouse #proverb #retort #education

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#life

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#men #more #politics #prove #than

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. ↗

— Aristotle

#life

Regardless of how dead we feel in a crowd, we cling to the uniquely American assumption that associating is good and necessary and solitude is suspect. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#life

The hero is the one who goes beyond his ability to improve his skills, until he becomes able to improve, and perhaps even alter, the skills of others. ↗

— Muhammad Adb Al-Rahman Al-Arifi

#improvement #life

Though introverts are drained by interaction, we can take immense pleasure in watching the scene around us. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#life

If you retreat in response to desire rather than deprivation, the deprivation may never come. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#life