#so

We all wear masks and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin. ↗

— André Berthiaume

#life

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter. ↗

— Josephine Hart

#life

The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father ↗

— Denzel Washington

#life

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#learning #life-lessons #money #richelle #richelle-goodrich

They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#hate #love #love

I am a degenerate modern semi-intellectual who would die if I did not get my early morning cup of tea and my New Statesman every Friday. Clearly I do not, in a sense, 'want' to return to a simpler, harder, probably agricultural way of life. In the same sense I don't 'want' to cut down on my drinking, to pay my debts, to take enough exercise, to be faithful to my wife, etc. etc. But in another and more permanent sense I do want these things, and perhaps in the same sense I want a civilization in which 'progress' is not definable as making the world safe for little fat men. ↗

— George Orwell

#socialism #witan #faith

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

#experience #eye #firm #handshake #hiding

You say you don't see any part of me. To love in all this mess and I know. You take the good and all the bad that comes with me. ↗

— Sara Quin

#so-jealous #take-me-anywhere #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin #love

But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy; and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts. ↗

— Will Durant

#faith #philosophy #rome #faith

Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? ↗

— Richard Wright

#richard-wright #the-outsider #life