#memoir

Civilization is only possible for deeply unpleasant animals. It is only an ape that can be truly civilized. ↗

— Mark Rowlands

#animals #inspiring #memoir #pet #philosophy

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#any #away #been #before #called

But you have to remember...that you can't run from unhappiness. You just take it with you. ↗

— Karen Wheeler

#life

The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid story; it even begins to hear rumors, from beyond the horizon skin’s rim, of nations and wars. You wake one day and discover your grandmother; you wake another day and notice, like any curious naturalist, the boys. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#boys #connection #memoir #sexuality #life

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#love #memoirs #woman #love

Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting. ↗

— Ariel Gore

#love

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. ↗

— Saloma Miller Furlong

#coming-of-age #escape-from-the-amish #inspirational #memoir #age

A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to ↗

— Jason Najum

#essay #memoir #pop-culture #movies

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable. ↗

— Kevin Alan Lee

#government #health-care #health-care-system #humanism #medical

In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size & the earlier your place on the tree of life, the more critical is your niche on Earth: snails & worms create soil, & blue-green algae create oxygen; mammals seem comparatively dispensable, the result of the random path of evolution over a luxurious amount of time. ↗

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#natural-history #non-fiction #life