To be honored by success is to take your life seriously. To humble-talk about it is to take yourself seriously. Meghan Daum honorehumblelife Change image and share on social
To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart. Rebecca Solnit bottomchangededicate Change image and share on social
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is! Barbara Kingsolver basiccrydebris Change image and share on social
To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too. Stephen Fry adoreadultapparently share on social
To be human is to have a collection of memories that tells you who you are and how you got there. Rosecrans Baldwin collectionhumanmemory Change image and share on social
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' Robert Fulghum barcageexistence Change image and share on social
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. Samuel Johnson careendeavorhide Change image and share on social
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. Buddha deathdiligentfoolish Change image and share on social
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. Robert Louis Stevenson identityidlepersonal Change image and share on social
