#ends

I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cast #characters #experiences #family #friends

We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cells #day #driving #each #energy

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#combine #commercial #free #free software #shareware

Organizations endure, however, in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership; and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests. ↗

— Chester Irving Barnard

#depends #derives #endurance #endure #governed

Oftentimes what happens is that the writer understands one character, but they don't understand the other one, and the other one ends up not being written as well. ↗

— Jennifer Beals

#character #ends #happens #oftentimes #other

To jump and break the sound barrier will not be a mere record breaking experience or another extreme event that ends once the mission is accomplished. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#another #barrier #break #breaking #ends

When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes. ↗

— William Bell

#bar #came #club #had #i

It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of our enemies a friend. ↗

— Pierre Jean de Beranger

#better #between #certainly #decide #difference

The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#best #fact #heaven #his #in fact

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #family