#dom

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. ↗

— Kevyn Aucoin

#able #being #choices #choose #comes

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#him #makes #often #proud #seldom

But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns. ↗

— John James Audubon

#birds #distance #flying #great #great distance

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base. ↗

— John Avlon

#conventional #conventional wisdom #cycle #different #give

Terrorists destroy randomly. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#randomly #terrorists

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#complex #foundations #freedom #his way #i

Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#profession #stardom

It is impossible to love and to be wise. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#impossible #love #to love #wise

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#friendship #increases #seldom #them #visiting

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#beyond #finds #good #health #hurt