#wrapped

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#life #sorrow #wrapped-in-rainbows #life

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. ↗

— Nat Turner

#avoided #devoting #discovered #fasting #great

Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#become #forget #something #up #wrapped

We’re so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—we’re involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don’t get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing? ↗

— Mitch Albom

#looking-back #mundane-life #realization #truth #wrapped-up

I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#day #every #every day #go #herbs

We have created indoor installations inside museums, like the Wrapped Floor at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 1968, and not monumental at all by any standards. ↗

— Christo

#art #chicago #contemporary #contemporary art #created

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#consider #divorce #ended #holly #i

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side. ↗

— Tommy Hilfiger

#design #designer #fashion #forget #get

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#crap #deep #i #people #prison

I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office. ↗

— Barack Obama

#bow #debt #doubled #found #i