#earn

My new favorite quote is, "Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers. ↗

— Joy Hakim

#food

I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside. ↗

— Mo Udall

#caucus #difference #i #i have learned #learned

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#another #beads #byron #child #feel

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. ↗

— Sarojini Naidu

#courage #deeper #earnestness #greater #motive

Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes. ↗

— Bill Willingham

#fair #forgive #forgiven #forgiveness #good

It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it." [On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.] ↗

— Don Henley

#learning #lessons #letting-go #life #forgiveness

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#hunger #thirst #yearning #freedom

Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that’s to always learn from it. ↗

— Raven Symone

#friendship #give #learn #offer #relationship

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience. ↗

— Bubba Sparxxx

#chalk #deliverance #experience #first #first time

I want to fill a jar with a lot of clapping, and sell my applause next to the applesauce in a grocery store. You can eat the praise you didn’t earn, but did pay for. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#earn #funny #praise #funny