#chi

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to. ↗

— Thanhha Lai

#classic #hope #hope-and-despair #insideoutandbackagain #learning

The true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition aiming to achieve your bliss. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#bliss #intuition #joy #wonder #life

When all the teachers are gone, who will be your teacher? The student replied: “Everything! Kobun, paused, then said: “No, you". ↗

— Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi

#life #self #teaching #life

God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#adversity #battles #come-full-circle-in-life #life-challenges #life-missions

Yes, but nomes aren’t hard to make,” said Dorcas. “You just need other nomes.” “You’re weird. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life #reproduction #life

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete ↗

— John Steinbeck

#wife #wifely-duty #life

The life's work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full-circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald's began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney's theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth. ↗

— Eric Schlosser

#fast-food #ray-kroc #successful-franchising #walt-disney #food

In medieval times, contrary to popular belief, most knights were bandits, mercenaries, lawless brigands, skinners, highwaymen, and thieves. The supposed chivalry of Charlemagne and Roland had as much to do with the majority of medieval knights as the historical Jesus with the temporal riches and hypocrisy of the Catholic Church, or any church for that matter. Generally accompanied by their immoral entourage or servants, priests, and whores, they went from tourney to tourney like a touring rock and roll band, sports team, or gang of South Sea pirates. Court to court, skirmish to skirmish, rape to rape. Fighting as the noble's substitution for work. ↗

— Tod Wodicka

#brigands #catholic-church #charlemagne #chivalry #highwaymen

He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth. ↗

— John Boyne

#life #truth #life

The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me. It resists finishing, and partly this is because words are not enough; my early world was synaesthesic, and I am haunted by the ghosts of my own sense impressions, which re-emerge when I try to write, and shiver between the lines. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#consciousness #ghosts #life #past #life