#tru

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ↗

— William Cowper

#comes #everything #existence #happiness #life

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend. ↗

— William Cowper

#ceremony #depend #eternal #fight #find

It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#being #come #dream #epitome #eyes

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#civilization #destruction #emotion #freedom #hasty

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#come #end #freeze #get #how

It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#because #even #handled #i #loved

I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#big #big mistake #book #conceived #could

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh. ↗

— Paul Valery

#before #flesh #long #made #must

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect. ↗

— Paul Valery

#inner #intellect #our #plan #present

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#becomes #books #clearer #consequence #function