#mean

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature. ↗

— Wynn Bullock

#i #me #meaning #nature #something

There is good in everything; it's just how you choose to look at it. Everything that's worth it has a price. For me to be a model - I had to leave my family. Do you think I liked that? No! There are sacrifices. Life is meant to be a challenge, because challenges are what make you grow. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#challenge #challenges #choose #everything #family

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#inspiration #meaning #peony #small-things #beauty

Diplomacy means the art of nearly deceiving all your friends, but not quite deceiving all your enemies. ↗

— Kofi Busia

#deceiving #diplomacy #friends #means #nearly

If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists. ↗

— Ralph Nader

#god #hadn #invented #meant #sugar

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace. ↗

— Kent Nerburn

#harvest #heart #how #less #life

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ↗

— George Orwell

#beliefs #both #contradictory #holding #means

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#change #character #come #costume #death

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#along #because #bumps #escaped #go

Why are we in this mess, now facing the prospect of economic armageddon? It's because the prevailing characteristic has been greed, and it doesn't matter whether it's individuals living beyond their means or governments living beyond their means or people seeking to get rich quick. ↗

— Jeremy Paxton

#because #been #beyond #characteristic #economic