#ali

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient. ↗

— Malcolm X

#personality #experience

But reality television is here to stay. ↗

— Cilla Black

#reality #reality television #stay #television

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh #relationships

The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#blessings #gratitude #spiritual-growth #victim-mentality #experience

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you. ↗

— Jerry Gillies

#make #really #someone #sure #visualize

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#concept #false #human #human race #must

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#between #human #human mind #keep #maintain

My definition of a green-collar job is this: a family-supporting, career-track job that directly contributes to preserving or enhancing environmental quality. ↗

— Van Jones

#green-job #family

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls. ↗

— Burt Bacharach

#did #felt #i #never #school

All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn't work in reality. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#created #debt #economics #facing #fantasy