#kin

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to diem it's also the positive that you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#dying #perspective #positive-thinking #age

I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

#across #camera #drama #drama school #even

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades. ↗

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#civilization #lamb #skin #which

It is impossible to treat a child too well. Children are spoiled by being ignored too much or by harshness, not by kindness. ↗

— Sloan Wilson

#being ignored #child #children #harshness #ignored

I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer." I'm jolted back in time, to another wound, another set of bandages. "You said that same thing to me in the first Hunger Games. Real or not real?" "Real," he says. "And you risked your life getting the medicine that saved me?" "Real." I shrug. "You were the reason I was alive to do it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#mockingjay #peeta #life

Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain? ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

Since extra-sensory perception (ESP) is awareness of the world beyond the senses, it would be inappropriate to term this Sixth Sense ‘extrasensory’. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#emotions #life #perspective #thinking #tragedy

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#changes #constitutes #distasteful #friends #growing

The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#any #anything #find #given #into