#everything

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living. ↗

— David Millar

#because #blamed #bother #came #cell

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest. ↗

— Henry Miller

#believes #cut #difficult #easiest #everything

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#god #next #nothing

Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#around #carrying #everything #get #going

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#consciousness #consumption #discarded #even #everything

Everything is pathology, except for indifference. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#except #indifference #pathology

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#freedom #illusion #longer #merely #posses

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#business #business world #everything #executive #knows

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of money. I mean what people take for granted among the middle and upper classes, which is nepotism, the old-boy network. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#classes #everybody #everything #gets #granted

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

#art #better #change #everything #history