#ene

No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#actually #becomes #choosing #close #experience

The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation. ↗

— Jennifer Dunn

#death #death tax #destroys #family #family-owned

I am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease. ↗

— Jourdan Dunn

#about #am #awareness #cell #charity

The primary nature of every human being is to be open to life and love. Being guarded, armoured, distrustful and enclosed is second nature in our culture. It is the means we adopt to protect ourselves against being hurt, but when such attitudes become characterological or structured in the personality, they constitute a more severe hurt and create a greater crippling than the one originally suffered. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#hurt-feelings #love #theraphy #attitude

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

#needs #one thing #pure #serene #thing

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#aware #building #contained #energy #whenever

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#done #energy #had #i #over

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#genius #i #intervened #laughter #like

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#each #find #generation #individuals #lucky

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across. ↗

— Justin Townes Earle

#al #came #dinner #early #feeling