#ife

Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and by doing so they free us from the unique sorrow of being human...I told Mom my own theory of why we like birds - of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#anger

All I have learned, I learned from books. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#education #lifelong-learning #lincoln #reading #self-education

Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#destination #happiness #inspirational #life #motivational

God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life. ↗

— Jason Isaacs

#al #god #hate #i #interviews

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another. ↗

— Amartya Sen

#born #campus #i #i was born #life

Give out what you most want to come back. ↗

— Robin S. Sharma

#life

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#changes #completely #enough #father #find

And this is why the defense is going to try to paint my brother out to be a drug addict and he was very dependent on drugs, and it's not true. Because how could someone be dependent on drugs since 2008, he was dancing four hours a day and he had a five-year plan of starting a new life. ↗

— Jermaine Jackson

#because #brother #could #dancing #day

Be weary of the unknown inside of every human being, but do not fear it, embrace it. ↗

— K.K. Cook

#lesson #life #life

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children. ↗

— Shirley Jackson

#children #disrespectful #life #memoir #savages