#th

Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#away #creep #drop #earth #liberty

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#deification #kim-jong-il #north-korea #personal-life #privacy

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. ↗

— Agha Hasan Abedi

#definition #developing #done #getting #management

It’s about getting to a point in your life where you’re ready to let go and move on and become the better version of yourself. ↗

— Jared Leto

#life

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it. ↗

— Virginia Euwer Wolff

#hard-times #life #the-way-of-life #tough #life

It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#causes #charity #donations #giving #holidays

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#toleration #truth #values #life

Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

#life

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#every #important #important things #life #most

Fifty percent of something is better than than one hundred percent of nothing. ↗

— Chuck Barris

#possession #truth #you-and-me-babe #life