#ss

Therefore, for me, living true to my self may be defined as: Making the daily choices in all areas of my life that are in the best interests of my survival, evolution and prosperity, that aid the ongoing achievement of the highest physical, mental and spiritual objectives of which I am capable, that are based on the most correct assessment of reality I have available, and that honor the evolving truth of who I am and who I choose to be, all in the personal pursuit of freedom, function, fun, as well as the highest good of all. ↗

— Walt F.J. Goodridge

#living-true #dreams

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#case #childhood #classic #divorce #good

Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand. ↗

— Iain Pears

#civilization #crudeness #education #knowledge #like-mindedness

If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. ↗

— Irvin S. Cobb

#good #much #sense #too #too much

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. ↗

— William Cobbett

#lives #mind #misery

Unauthorized access to computer systems is already a serious crime in a few states and is currently being addressed in many more state legislatures as well as Congress. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#addressed #already #being #computer #congress

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. ↗

— William Cobbett

#him #his #independent #makes #man

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#expenditure #increase #knowledge #lead #progress

I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#am #any #been #country #degree

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#armaments #burdensome #came #enormous #governments