#less

I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do. ↗

— Jewel

#day #fun #had #homeless #i

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?' ↗

— John Mayer

#because #bed #blessing #ceiling #four

It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it. ↗

— George McGovern

#commit #national #national security #our #patriotic

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift. ↗

— James McGreevey

#be grateful #blessings #day #each #gift

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection. ↗

— James McGreevey

#civil #equal #equal protection #institution #less

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

#confess #etc #failed #faults #his

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#compassion #destroy #fearlessness #human #human race

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#away #blessed #carries #country #earth

I get kind of emotionally involved very quickly, and I'm not going to spend time with someone unless I love them. But it's not hard for me to fall in love. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#fall #get #going #hard #i

I'm hopeless with money; I simply spend what I've got. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#hopeless #i #money #simply #spend