#ife

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen. ↗

— Matt Groening

#believe #did #everybody #everything #fine

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

#belief #consciousness #cultures #developed #earth

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It's inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#deeply #different #eyes #feel #inevitable

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. ↗

— Walter Gropius

#civilized #civilized society #design #everyone #guiding

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life. ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#believing #give #go #goals #i

'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! ↗

— Andrew Gross

#bottom #california #central #chance #charles

I didn't want to be an actress. I wanted to be a dentist, but you never know what life will bring you. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#bring #dentist #i #know #life

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it. ↗

— Terry Gross

#edited #i #i love #life #love

Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed me open and sown seeds of empathy that have taken root in deep soil. Over the years, reading has caused me to grow from a shallow, self-absorbed youth to one who seeks out the pain of the world. Reading has burdened me with the welfare of my fellow human, but sometimes the burden proves too heavy for my narrow shoulders. ↗

— Steve Kendall

#life-lessons #maturity #reading #experience

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots. ↗

— Luis Guzman

#being #culture #east #east side #given