#son

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#artists #falsification #gain #greed #honesty

Vedi Jim, tu sei una persona intelligente. Molto intelligente. Lo sei sempre stato ma purtroppo ti accontenti di essere solo una persona furba. ↗

— Giorgio Faletti

#intelligence #life #life-lessons #love #intelligence

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#drinking #like #other #person #poison

I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#mistakes #life

لكن دعني أخبرك بشيء مهم ,لا تقض حياتك بإنتظار أن تنتهي الفترة كذا و الفترة كذا .. أن تنتهي فترة الدراسة .. أن تنتهي فترة التجنيد الإجباري .. أن تنتهي فترة انتدابك في كينيا .. إلخ لسوف تجد أن حياتك صارت مجموعة من الفترات يجب أن تنتهي و هوب! تكتشف أنك بلغت نهاية العمر ولما تنعم بحياتك يوما واحدا .. يجب أن تستمتع بكل فترة كأنها هي الصورة الوحيدة النهائية لحياتك .. ↗

— أحمد خالد توفيق

#life #life-lessons #life

Since Percy’d lost his memory,his whole life was one big fillin-the-blank. He was____________________, from____________________. He felt like ____________________, and if the monsters caught him, he’d be____________________. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#life

I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner. ↗

— David Archuleta

#happiness #life #life-lessons #thought #life

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. ↗

— Mark Twain

#born #day #important #life #reasons-why

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself. ↗

— Aesop

#life

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#life