#seriousness

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation. ↗

— Nazim Hikmet

#beyond #example #for example #great #i

What, in all very seriousness, the hell was going on? ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#seriousness #dreams

I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel. ↗

— Roman Payne

#growth #hard-times #hardship #jail #jailbird

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#angry #black #could #fire #i

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness. ↗

— Anthea Turner

#business #like #run #same #seriousness

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. ↗

— Heraclitus

#child #himself #man #most #nearly

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me. ↗

— Tim Duncan

#difficult #family #great #me #raised

It's a lovely answer and takes me entirely by surprise. I hadn't realized we were having a serious conversation, or I think I would've given a better reply when he asked me. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#reply #seriousness #surprise #love

And where," Socrates smiled, "is the universe?" "The universe is well, there are theories about how it's shaped..." "That's not what I asked. Where is it?" "I don't know - how can I answer that?" "That is the point. You cannot answer it, and you never will. There is no knowing about it. You are ignorant of where the universe is, and thus, where you are. In fact, you have no knowledge of where anything is or of What anything is or how is came to be. Life is a mystery. "My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass. ↗

— Dan Millman

#ignorance #seriousness #understanding #change

This showed once again that everyone had something different to lose in this battle. Some were concerned for their lives, and some for those they cared most about: rays, sea horses, even the chickens that ran free in the streets of the city because they couldn't all be caught in time. ↗

— Kai Meyer

#humor #seriousness #death