#livin

There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#differences #droids #fitting-in #generic #generic-people

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked. ↗

— Amy Smart

#best #enjoying #getting #gift #heads

Always remember You are loved You carry the love You spread the love You radiate the love And the love is returned to you ↗

— Karen Hackel

#love #new-age #self-love #age

Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the foundation upon which more can be built. Where trust is, love can flourish. ↗

— Barbara Smith

#beginning #built #faith #flourish #foundation

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never. ↗

— Shannon Celebi

#father #fathers #fathers-and-daughters #growing-up #life

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. ↗

— Núria Añó

#ageing #aging #aging-gracefully #economy #getting-older

And I said well luckily I was mature and old enough to take this success at my age. It was bullshit. ↗

— Nicholas Evans

#age

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. ↗

— Colum McCann

#youth-age #age

The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#art

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#living-life #art