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Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#encouragement #positive #time #life

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#philosophy #philosophy-of-life #life

Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books-- Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life. ↗

— Jane Hirshfield

#nature #wisdom #life

I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of rubbish. And I want to do something that matters with my life. Right now I'd like to write plays, sing in musicals, and/or rid the world of poverty, violence, cruelty, and right-wing conservative politics. ↗

— Alison Larkin

#cruelty #handbags #musicals #plays #politics

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#pop-culture #press #life

This semester has born in me the flame of hope to one day become a leader in the modern feminist movement. I can and will be the force that blows new life into it, giving a face and name to associate with instead of those women now who’s names I don’t know because they weren’t listed on Wikipedia. ↗

— Christy Leigh Stewart

#school #life

Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body. ↗

— Ina May Gaskin

#feminism #sex-positive #life

The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#disgust #horror-of-life #life

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