#eh

Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it? ↗

— Robert Buettner

#conformity #grand-picture #human-behavior #human-superiority #humankind

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#life

But Marisa already knew the answer and it was too late for recrimination. The chance of even a rational discussion of the problem was forever shut out of Mama’s brain. A brutal bastard was steadily sucking the intelligence and the very life from the mother who had once been witty, wise and loving. The scourge had a name Marisa had come to equate with hell: Alzheimer’s Disease. ↗

— Anna Jeffrey

#intelligence

Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame. ↗

— Jay Bell

#life

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#attitude

There are two ways,” he told me, “and they are love and not love. I choose love. ↗

— Tony Jones

#love

God also cheers when we come to him with our wobbling, unsteady prayers. Jesus does not say, “Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest. ↗

— Paul Miller

#life

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there. ↗

— Richard Rohr

#life

It was not a safe thing to lead Joe into temptation; he had no resistance to it at all. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#men

While it did smash, breaking a bottle over someone’s head requires a lot more force than movies had led me to believe. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#movies