#ship

You must live a very free life." "Me?" she laughed. "I am not who swoops out of the sky to rain fire on pirates!" "Yeah, but before this I never did much. I mean I did a lot, but...I lived in a room at a university, and my whole world was in that little room. There was this world inside my head." De la Fitte studied his head as if she could see through his skull to a little globe inside it somewhere. ↗

— Sam Starbuck

#america #engineer #fire #london #pirates

We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we have to prove our mettle. A false Christianity takes us up on the mount and we want to stay there. But what about the devil-possessed world? Oh, let it go to hell! We are having a great time up here. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#hell #inspirational

Speaking generally, however, when you interact with someone else, you are doing outer work (physical time, play time, connecting time) ... as many sociologists have pointed out, this area of life used to dominate everyday existence, at a time when families sat around the fire of an evening and ate every meal together. That's no longer true. Families today are often loose constellations. Contact is intermittent and rushed. everyone has their own space. Activity is scattered all around town, not confined to the home. Cars have made everyone mobile, but central heating may be the most powerful force in shaping modern society. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#family

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#wine #age

Relationships is not a game of amateurs is what people say.. But they begin to foster between amateurs and become a reason to make them matured grown-ups! ↗

— Sujit Lalwani

#life-lessons #relationship #life

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship. ↗

— LeeAnn Taylor

#belonging #earth #humanity #life #man

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#friendship

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray. ↗

— Albert Camus

#loyalty #relationships #love

He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#artists #complexity #friendship #music #musicians

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#love #moving-on #relationships #love