#abu

When I’m feeling down, I make myself a big bowl of Up Soup. The bowl only looks empty, but in reality it’s full of hope. Grab a spoon, there’s plenty for both of us. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#bowl #depressed #depression #eat #empty

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary. ↗

— Lee Konitz

#jazz #jazz players #least #most #out

People who are into drugs can sniff them out in the desert if they have to. And they'll find the codeine cough syrup or the person who's got some prescription that most resembles the drug of choice. It's weird, I was such a survivor and so wanted to be a part of life while I was trying to snuff out the life that was inside of me. I had this duality of trying to kill myself with drugs, then eating really good food and exercising and going swimming and trying to be a part of life. I was always going back and forth on some level. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#food

I would certainly choose my jobs depending on the actions of the character. I won't do anything that has to do with child abuse or women's abuse. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#actions #anything #certainly #character #child

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity. ↗

— Vera Wang

#book #both #creativity #define #dresses

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#borrow #down #english #just #languages

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world. ↗

— Diane Watson

#custody #detainees #nation #our #position

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#eighties #especially #fifties #friends #i

I don't forgive him," I said. "Hell, no, you don't. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with his life? And what's he done to help you get on with yours? ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#coping #life-lessons #forgiveness

The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be to fall to the same low level. After all, even in prison, a man can be quite free. His soul can be free. His personality can be untroubled. He can be at peace. And, above all things, they are not to interfere with other people or judge them in any way. Personality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated by what he does. He may keep the law, and yet be worthless. He may break the law, and yet be fine. He may be bad, without ever doing anything bad. He may commit a sin against society, and yet realise through that sin his true perfection. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#freedom #oscar #personality #prison #soul