#evolving

Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts ↗

— Rory Miller

#change #evolving #growing-up #personality #psychology

You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom. ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#life #mindfulness #peace #life

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#already #carries #every #evolving #grace

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. ↗

— Albert Camus

#born #corner #deeds #door #great

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple. ↗

— Mark Zuckerberg

#doing #else #everything #evolving #extremely

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#bicycle #cause #force #give #give me

We have this kind of revolving door, we don't have a permanent class of millionaires in America like a lot of other countries. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#class #countries #door #kind #like

Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#evolving #genes #information #properties #receive

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. ↗

— Stephen Harper

#basic #commissions #democratic #democratic society #evolving

Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#caught #door #housekeeping #like #revolving