#sat

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#satire #shakespeare #humor

Live a good life. In the end it is not the years in a life, but the life in the years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#enjoy-life #misattributed #life

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#depression #fear #life #speaking #words

He is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. ↗

— John Piper

#life

We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Even after we outgrow some of these others—our parents, for instance—and they disappear from our lives, the conversation with them continues within us as long as we live. ↗

— Charles Taylor

#dialogue #life #parents #self #self-identity

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin. ↗

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

#god #mysticism #occultism #positivism #religion

Happiness is the most tired word in any language. ↗

— Erol Ozan

#dissatisfaction #happiness #happiness-life #happy #pursuit-of-happiness

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#answer #existence #human #human existence #love is

A lot of things happen in our lives without any apparent justification. but whatever happens to us,takes us one step ahead in the path of self realisation. the truth is we all are travellers in the life's eternal journey, to meet for a short while,to care and share but we tend to forget that nothings lasts forever. if only we could cultivate a sense of detachment,life would have been much easier. ↗

— Chitralekha Paul

#self-discovery #self-realisation #writers #writing #life

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#life #saturn #life