#ife

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#choice #going #life #our choice #stress

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. ↗

— John Betjeman

#like #luxury #many #me #modern

I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head. ↗

— Luc Besson

#another #fear #films #first #goal

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. ↗

— Mary McLeod Bethune

#factor #faith #first #impossible #life

I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them. ↗

— Pete Best

#because #beside #business #could #daughters

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Bart D. Ehrman

#intelligence #life #literature #religion #inspirational

I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context. ↗

— Joseph Beuys

#completely #context #enterprise #future #go

Life is lived in common, but not in community. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#community #life #lived

I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care. ↗

— Jessica Biel

#care #clothes #handbags #i #important

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#advantage #affairs #conduct #contest #interests