#if

I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#deeper #desire #energy #feel #followed

I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life. ↗

— Kyle Schmid

#consider #five #four #friends #group

He shakes his head. "They're hunting the Enkis. I know that. And I get that. But . . . we're special." "The reason they want them is because they're special. Anchovies aren't going to cure anyone." "That's not the special I mean." He catches another fish and hugs it to his chest. I'm trying to be gentle. "They're only special to you because they're yours." "I could say the same thing about that cute kid you were holding." Well, shit. ↗

— Hannah Moskowitz

#specialness #value-of-life #life

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film. ↗

— Rainer W. Fassbinder

#best #between #create #criticism #dream

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black. ↗

— Mike Schmidt

#baseball #been #black #could #dirt

You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it. ↗

— Sally Schneider

#busy life #cook #easier #fun #get

I don't need to have a retirement, retire your jersey, all that stuff to solidify my career. ↗

— Brett Favre

#i #jersey #need #retire #retirement

Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that? ↗

— Barbet Schroeder

#did #everyday #everyday life #i #just

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#driving #economy #engine #growth #make

Trouble makes us one with every human being in the world - and unless we touch others, we're out of touch with life. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#compassion #connectedness #help #oneness #trouble