#aw

Here's the thing: the act of reading changes your life, sometimes in large ways, sometimes in small ways, but every book you read asks you to move outside of yourself and your own experience to consider the lives of others. So I can't identify a particular book that altered my life, but I do know that the act of reading has pushed me to engage more deeply with the world (real and imagined), and I'm grateful for that. ↗

— Ethan Rutherford

#shelf-awareness #change

Thousand got away to other countries; thousands returned to Spain tempted by false promises of kindness. By the tens of thousands, these Spaniards died of neglect in the concentration camps. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#camps #concentration #countries #died #false

Change your mind and change your whole life experience. ↗

— C.G. Rousing

#abraham-hicks #fantasy #gate #jerry-and-esther-hicks #law-of-attraction

My grandmother got approved right before the law changed, so naturally she got grandfathered in. In related news, but completely unrelated, I was adopted.
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— Jarod Kintz

#adoption #family #grandfathered #grandma #law

The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#else #life #living #nothing #positively

By ending the Hussein regime, the United States has taken away yet another incubator of terrorism. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#away #ending #hussein #incubator #regime

Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away. ↗

— Ricky Gervais

#came #go #go away #i #just

The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ↗

— Beth Gibbons

#automatically #away #comes #difficult #equal

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with. ↗

— Robert Gibbs

#continuing #crisis #dealing #eight #end

It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them! ↗

— Emily Giffin

#children #crazed #end #funny #funny thing