#am

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#element #feature #fundamental #second #striving

The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. ↗

— Felicity Huffman

#also #contraception #declines #directly #families

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#camp #day #diary #dreary #effort

I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out. ↗

— Clara Hughes

#find #go #i #i am #just

When I am at my work each day In the fields so fresh and green I often think of riches and the way things might have been But believe me when I tell you when I get home each day I'm as happy as a sandboy with my wee cup of tay ↗

— Patrick McCabe

#tea #work #dreams

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. ↗

— Fannie Hurst

#another #any #getting #into #name

The limitless mind lets us dream and examine and explore. It opens us up to opportunity. We come up with a desire, a clear, fresh perspective, and a potential goal to observe from afar. And we wonder, is this it, the right choice, the best choice to follow? ↗

— Lorii Myers

#dream #oberservation #potential-for-greatness #wonder #dreams

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. ↗

— Thomas Hughes

#better #education #englishman #every #form

We're meant to stay connected to our hearts, you see. Feeling our feelings, present in the moments we're given. But we don't do that. And that's when we get in trouble. ... We mature and take responsibility for ourselves and others, and that's a good thing. But we're never meant to lose that alive quality, to get cut off from our true hearts. Growing up isn't the same thing as shutting down. ... We can fight it. We have to fight it. Because when our hearts shut down, we become mere shells of who we once were. We don't laugh—not honestly, not from the heart. We don't dream. We don't feel our feelings or use our gifts. We end up trying to just survive instead of live. It's like we've handed our hearts over to the enemy of our souls and said, 'Here you can have it. I'm giving up. ↗

— Denise Hildreth Jones

#living #our-hearts #dreams

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#brains #goal #republic #university