#kin

I will confess I am a great wingman. Since I have a girlfriend, I'll start the night with her, but then I'll help out the guys by making them sound like the most incredible guys in the world. ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#confess #girlfriend #great #guys #help

To expect and dread a thing for a lifetime; does not prepare you for the thing itself. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#dark-ages #king-author #merlin #wizards #age

There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will look out for the age at which, had you your wish, your species had stopped. Uneasy at your present condition for reasons which threaten your unhappy posterity with still greater uneasiness, you will perhaps wish it were in your power to go back; and this sentiment ought to be considered, as the panegyric of your first parents, the condemnation of you contemporaries, and a source of terror to all those who may have the misfortune of succeeding you. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#age

For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she recognized her good fortune for what it was. She'd been lucky in so much, it had left her woefully unprepared for old age. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#fortune #good-fortune #kindness #luck #old-age

When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it. ↗

— Dana Torres

#exhausted #feel #fifth #focus #i

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself. ↗

— Robert Towne

#almost #develop #dialogue #drawn #ear

Bit literacy means letting the bits go; anything else perpetuates the problem. ↗

— Mark Hurst

#age

you have to come of age when it's your time. If you try to rush it or put it off, it only gets you into trouble. ↗

— Donna Clayton

#age

When angry, count to Zen. ↗

— Leonard Scheff

#buddhism #leonard-scheff #the-cow-in-the-parking-lot #zen #anger

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe. ↗

— Eric Chaisson

#earth #humankind #universe #age