#iving

I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#am #girl #go #house #i

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ↗

— Mark Twain

#around #first #go #here #living

I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#i #loved #me #opportunity #thank

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. ↗

— Mark Twain

#done #easiest #easiest thing #giving #giving up

Don't count the days, make the days count. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#carpe-diem #advice

The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it. ↗

— Rachel Field

#artists #grief #joy #life #life-and-living

In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by their proponents. Students study how to make tea, perform martial arts, or write with a brush in the most skillful way possible to express themselves with maximum efficiency and minimum strain. Through this efficient, adroit, and creative performance, they arrive at art. But if they continue to delve even more deeply into their art, they discover principles that are truly universal, principles relating to life itself. Then, the art of brush writing becomes shodo—the “Way of the brush”—while the art of arranging flowers is elevated to the status of kado—the “Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular. ↗

— H.E. Davey

#budo #do #efficiency #flowers #ikebana

Orthodoxy is marked by sobriety, not by emotional enthusiasm. It is also marked by a quite “ordinary” persistence in living the humble, consistent life of Christ, not by seeking out extraordinary experiences, especially supernatural ones. ↗

— Andrew Stephen Damick

#christianity #eastern-orthodox-church #orthodox-christianity #orthodoxy #experience

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#thanksgiving #salvation

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theater, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#fact #films #i #i do #i love