#work

I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it in a book. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#exhaustion #lightsong #work #work-ethic #ethics

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150) ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#ethics

Have you ever read a wonderful quote that you want to post on your twitter/facebook/blog/whatever but you feel like it may come off as “not Christian enough” or just a little theologically lacking? ↗

— Nick Rynerson

#social-networking #testimony #twitter

He touched her as he usually touched his beloved violin, with a soft and urgent grace that left her breathless. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #tessa-gray #tessa-gray

He bent down to her; their mouths met again, and the shock of sensation was so strong, so overpowering, that she shut her eyes against it as if she could hide in the darkness. He murmured and gathered her against him. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #tessa-gray

And the gold of her ruined wedding dress. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #tessa-gray

Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world. ↗

— Heraclitus

#philosophy #sleep #wisdom #hard-work

Llarimar had told him to do his best. That sounded like an awful lot of work. Unfortunately, doing nothing was beginning to seem like even MORE work. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#humor #work #attitude

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#like #lose #may #scenes #tend

Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #magnus-bane #magnus-bane