#pro

The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away. ↗

— David Millar

#life #problems #things #life

Perché la vita è fatta soprattutto di patteggiamenti. Di situazioni in cui – questa è la rivelazione che spiazza – ti scopri capace di una comprensione al ribasso che normalmente non ti spieghi, quando la riconosci negli altri. E capisci alcune cose. ↗

— Diego De Silva

#life #patteggiamento #problemi #vita #life

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book? ↗

— Julian Barnes

#life #protagonist #reality #life

Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#moments #providence #sacred #life

...I finally went back to my seat in the second row and sat there doing what I've done throughout my professional life: I tried to think, first, how to make credible a somewhat extreme, if not outright ridiculous story, and, next, how, after telling it, to fortify and defend myself from the affronted who read into the story an intention having perhaps to do less with the author's perversity than with their own. ↗

— Philip Roth

#professional-life #to-fortify-and-defend-myself #life

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#poetry #prose #life

Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#etiquette #giving-advice #good-manners #life-coaching #life-experience

Strategic personal qualities you can base your self-confidence on are those which are interesting for all mankind. ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#life-coaching #life-tips #personal-competences #personal-growth #personal-qualities

Theere is an imperative to be in a process, the energy & consciousness of life means for us to be constantly observing, learning & becoming. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#consciousness #energy #imperative-for-life #learn #observe

Habit enables us to cling to the familiar, to the self we think we know with a persistence almost irresistible. An anodyne for the terror of the unknown, it effectively keeps us from knowing, and is fatal in itself. Habit is a fiction the organism requires to dim perception. It screens us from the world, and from the true world of the self. Habit—no matter how intense the suffering it causes—is the last thing the personality will give up. It is arming itself against danger. The weapons may be more painful to use than the pain they seek to deflect. No matter. Habit allows us to live—by which Proust means it allows us to exist while it simultaneously compels us to miss Life. ↗

— Howard Moss

#proust #life