#iv

Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away. ↗

— Kent Nerburn

#away #choose #choose love #chooses #comes

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#danger #lives #men #middle-aged #orthodox

None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives. ↗

— Jake Lloyd

#exactly #how #lives #much #none

But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#back #because #called #coming #heart

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#about #bargains #bestowed #destruction #ever

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#cause #chicago #conservative #fact #i

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#bad #clinging #family #like #love

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#am #chance #chapters #characters #develop

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game. ↗

— Eric Liu

#elections #fellow #game #i #i wonder

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me. ↗

— Eric Liu

#been #blazing #brute #brute force #bryan