Ryuguden Ryokan Quotes & Sayings

But I think it's important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem unthinkable - to get sucked into the wrong environment and make moral compromises that can tarnish us terribly. We like to think that we change our environment, but the truth is that it changes us. So we have to be extraordinarily careful to choose the right environment - to work with, and even socialize with, the right people. Ideally, we should stick close to people who are better than us so that we can become more like them. — Guy Spier

I felt so sad that it felt like my rib cage was collapsing in on itself. — Emery Lord

cause when there's life there's still hope — Michael Morpurgo

I'm so inspired and stimulated by the work that it doesn't ever feel like work. — Tatiana Maslany

Wikipedia is kind of weird. I feel it's lame to put up my own page, but I desperately want someone else to do it. — Kumail Nanjiani

I did what you would probably have done in my place. I modestly declared myself to be quite unequal to the task imposed upon me - and I privately felt, all the time, that I was quite clever enough to perform it. — Wilkie Collins

The hazard of confessional books is how fast the world moves on while they're written. — Tina Brown

Danger it selfe the best remedy for danger. — George Herbert

This is what Achilles will feel like when he is old. And then I remembered: he will never be old. — Madeline Miller

Sixteen, I reflected, biting into a stolen pie. By this time in her life, my sister Mary had been pregnant. Ovid had dedicated his life to poetry. Queen Elizabeth had seen a suitor beheaded. Romeo and Juliet were dead. Whereas I, Margaret Lucas, was nothing if not in health, no single true adventure to my name. — Danielle Dutton