#sm

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. ↗

— Russell Baker

#except #journalism #more #politics #scrutinized

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#humanity #life #life

We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion. ↗

— Yann Martel

#religion #life

I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold ↗

— Dale Wasserman

#generosity #giving #goals #goals-in-life #heroism

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone. ↗

— Saigyō

#life

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

#conferred #practice #statesmanship

Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves, As souls only understand souls. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#perfectionism #self #self-awareness #souls #life

When the road ahead seems impossible, start the engine ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #optimism #philosophy #quote #wisdom

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#inner-voice #inner-voicery #invasion #life #lights

How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#life-philosophy #manipulation #life