#formed

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#come #existing #foul #into #may

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#been #certain #certain age #choose #expectations

There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#audience #being #get #live #never

I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has been emotional, rather than as a result of being particularly well informed as to how the money is used. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#been #being #charities #emotional #expertise

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#forget #god #granted #great #how

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#alabama #biologically #evolution #freshman #freshman year

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#advanced #been #bewilderment #changed #exhilaration

The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists. ↗

— Bob Graham

#american #american people #capability #dealing #effective

I've known Emma Watson since she was 9, we've watched each other grow up, formed this sort of brother/sister bond, and suddenly I'm leaning in to kiss her. Well, it felt completely wrong... but, you know, you try to sink into the character and divorce yourself from it. We ended up laughing hysterically afterwards. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#bond #brother #character #completely #divorce

Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting. ↗

— Bobby Hatfield

#beatles #break #chanting #could #gave