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A conclusion I’ve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but it’s really about making work into something that isn’t drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#living #life

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#living #life

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. ↗

— Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

#open #open-mindedness #receptiveness #life

We learn not in the school, but in life. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#life

I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#genuineness #happiness #inspirational-happiness #inspirational-quotes #life-and-living

You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#honor #hurt #naruto #pain #life

Life'd be a lot easier if it were like a fairy tale," said Cassandra, "if people belonged to stock character types." "Oh, but people do, they only think they don't. Even the person who insists such things don't exist is a cliché: the dreary pedant who insists on his own uniqueness! ↗

— Kate Morton

#uniqueness #life

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#enemies-and-opposition #life

Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#children #despair #enlightenment #life

We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#life #spirituality #life