#lending

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real. ↗

— John Green

#blending-in #life

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential. Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many cats. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#blending #compassion #compassionate #intelligence #intelligent

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy ↗

— Henry Miller

#crazy

I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#blending-in #lonely

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ↗

— Anatole France

#lending #library #library

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#existence #lending #nothing #poetry #shadows

The type of mixing that was out then was blending from one record to the next or waiting for the record to go off and wait for the jock to put the needle back on. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#blending #go #jock #mixing #needle

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#alteration #american #american revolution #animated #annihilated

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#circumstances #ever #get #given #had

You have to listen to the people who have a negative opinion as well as those who have positive opinion. Just to make sure that you are blending all these opinions in your mind before a decision is made. ↗

— Carlos Ghosn

#before #blending #decision #just #listen