#being

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#christmas #family #i #i love #lights

I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#being #came #clearly #difficult #end

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#being #honest #i #independent #independent woman

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#bent #centuries #curb #developed #did

Human beings have always been mythmakers. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#been #beings #human #human beings

Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#beings #both #enabling #extend #human

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #beyond #bible #bigger #centuries

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#astronaut #attractions #being #completely #flying

I had the pleasure of knowing Ronald Reagan before he became Governor of California. He was a truly great human being and we usually spent our time together reminiscing about mutual friends. ↗

— James Arness

#became #before #being #california #friends

Isi, I’m trying to say that you’ve been… no, you’re so, you’re–” He stopped. "You are,” he said. His hand found hers, and he held her finger tightly, as though he did not dare to do any more than hold her one hand, and look at her, and breathe deeply. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#geric #isi #love #love