Quotes for All
Women in America read ‘lifestyle’ pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of … Read more
Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude. Eric Weiner
I really don’t need the public’s money. I’d like to have something on the internet with charitable donation optional, where anyone can download my music for free. Elton John
Bleeding isn’t optional for most of us. Eileen Wilks
Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. Ed Viesturs
Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure. Friedrich Nietzsche
Institutions are becoming naked, and if you’re going to be naked … fitness is no longer optional. If you’re going to be naked, you better get buff. Don Tapscott
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional. Desmond Tutu
Change isn’t optional, and creation isn’t something that happened a long time ago and then ended. It’s ongoing, and we are invited to be a part of it. The question for us is ‘what will we create in this new day?’ How will we make it count? How will we nourish the things that matter, … Read more
You would think death was an optional extra nowadays. Nobody wants to tick that box. David Hockney