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Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise ↗

— Alice Walker

#life

When life gives you lemons, forget the lemonade. Make a lemon chicken and a rich lemon cheesecake. Blame life for the extra pounds. ↗

— Susie Smith

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Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that? ↗

— Arina Tanemura

#takuto #life

A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#students #teacher #teaching #life

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing. ↗

— Rachel Naomi Remen

#sanctuary #silence #life

When people say they hate life, to what are they comparing it to? The alternative isn't any more appealing. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#philosophy-of-life #philosphy #philsophical-thought #life

When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography. ↗

— Iveta Cherneva

#crawling #dance #down #improvise #life

There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women... ↗

— Orson Welles

#orson-welles #life

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#fate #fear #ignorance #life #order

Jules, I’ll tell you now what I would have told you at dinner if you’d been speakin’ to me. This,” he said, one hand dropping to my bottom and pulling my hips into his, one going up my back to press my torso to his chest, “is the sweetest thing I’ve had in my life and I haven’t even f**ked you yet. I never expected to get a chance at anything so sweet and now that I got it, I’m not gonna let it go. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

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