#chi

Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#appeared #century #china #christianity #earth

For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese. ↗

— Andy Lau

#example #for example #similar

My childhood home backed onto wheat and cotton fields. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#childhood #cotton #cotton fields #fields #home

I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#all things #bit #boxing #chi #current

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#comfort #economy #embrace #happiness #i

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#avoid #been #children #delight #doing

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#ancestors #children #future #land #look

Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass? ↗

— Frank Lautenberg

#child #death #free #get #injury

I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.' ↗

— Jude Law

#because #get #handkerchief #i #i think

If this were a proper world, beautiful faces would belong to beautiful people. Good people with kind hearts and clever minds would always have bright eyes and dazzling smiles, and bad people would have scraggly hair and warty noses. That way if you saw one of them coming, you could cross to the other side of the street and avoid them altogether. But this is not a proper world. In our world, many bad people look quite nice, and many good people are not beautiful at all. Many good people aren't pretty or cute or even interesting-looking. ↗

— Brit Trogen

#imagination #inner-beauty #margaret-and-the-moth-tree #novel #people