#ge

It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don't want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves. (p. 174-5) ↗

— Geneen Roth

#eating #eating-disorders #health #food

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own. ↗

— Henry Ford

#angle #any #get #lies #other

I came into office to do what was correct, not to see what was politically expedient to get re-elected. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#correct #expedient #get #i #i came

I try to get in quiet time and book time, but really, the only time I ever get that is when I'm on an airplane - I have a fear of flying, but I actually love flying because it's the only time I can sleep, and it's the only time I get to read. ↗

— Kesha

#airplane #because #book #ever #fear

It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don't need the option of buying children's toys made with lead paint, or aerosols with chlorofluorocarbons, or medicines with unlabeled side effects. And we don't need the option of buying factory-farmed animals. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#animal-rights #capitalism #ecology #sustainability #vegan

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. ↗

— Henry Ford

#experience #knowledge #man #only #real

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love. ↗

— Ellen Key

#even #immoral #legal #love #love is

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused. ↗

— Luke Ford

#anger #feared #frequently #friendships #hatred

The Taliban and its backers bear the responsibility for the consequences of this outrageous act. ↗

— Amanullah Khan

#backers #bear #consequences #outrageous #responsibility

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged. ↗

— John M. Ford

#lost