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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork. ↗

— Sam Worthington

#completely #dork #good #i #i do

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#happiness #hopes #ignorance #invaluable #life

Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest feature become more conspicuous from the others' retiring. ↗

— Mary Wortley

#conspicuous #effect #face #feature #mind

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community. ↗

— Chely Wright

#christian #christian home #community #decade #first

When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment. ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#meditation #mind #reality #remorse #thinking

By what criterion... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends? ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#among #aught #causes #criterion #distinguish

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay. ↗

— Chely Wright

#achieve #age #being #compound #could

I felt like a sinful person when I dated men and allowed them to feel for me in a way I knew I could never naturally feel for them. That felt wrong and a lie. ↗

— Chely Wright

#could #dated #feel #felt #i

I guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure? ↗

— Chely Wright

#how #i #know #life #many

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top. ↗

— Chely Wright

#artist #different #i #i think #least