#kind

What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday? ↗

— Sherley Mondesir-Prescott

#children #children-s-books #humor #humour #illustrated-books

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked ↗

— Richard Buckminster Fuller

#mankind #stupidity #intelligence

Since the war, we're the only intelligent species left in the universe, therefore we think everything in this universe has to conform to our paradigm of what makes sense. Do you have any idea how arrogant that view is and on how little of this universe we base it? ↗

— Robert Buettner

#conformity #grand-picture #human-behavior #human-superiority #humankind

He who hurries through life hurries to his grave. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#life

May all that have life be delivered from suffering ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#kindness #life #life

No matter where we come from, a little sugar is what everybody demands in life, what everybody needs in life. It's perhaps the main ingredient that keeps us alive. ↗

— Merce Cardus

#kindness #inspirational

But Marisa already knew the answer and it was too late for recrimination. The chance of even a rational discussion of the problem was forever shut out of Mama’s brain. A brutal bastard was steadily sucking the intelligence and the very life from the mother who had once been witty, wise and loving. The scourge had a name Marisa had come to equate with hell: Alzheimer’s Disease. ↗

— Anna Jeffrey

#intelligence

Love isn’t meant to be hidden away and life is too short for shame. ↗

— Jay Bell

#life

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#attitude

There are two ways,” he told me, “and they are love and not love. I choose love. ↗

— Tony Jones

#love