#ness

So as a seventh grader, no, you weren't friends with people you didn't like. But sometimes you also weren't friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didn't make any sense if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. That's where the sadness came in. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#complicated #friends #like #sadness #seventh-grade

We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#friendships #life #perspective #story #change

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. ↗

— Malcolm X

#reading #change

We're all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle; some connected for mere seconds, some connected for life, some connected through knowledge, some through belief, some connected through wisdom, some through Love, and some connected with no explanation at all. Yet, as spiritual beings having a human experience, we're all here for the sensations this reality or illusion has to offer. The best anyone can hope for is the right to be able to Live, Learn, Love then Leave. After that, reap the benefits of their own chosen existence in the hereafter by virtue of simply believing in what they believe. As for here, it took me a while but this progression helped me with my life: "I like myself. I Love myself. I am myself. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#god #happiness #life #love #peace

First-class religion teaches one how to love God without any motive. If I serve God for some profit, that is business-not love. ↗

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

#business

Our only business is to love God, not to ask God for our necessities. ↗

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

#business

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities. ↗

— Mark Batterson

#business

In fact, I couldn't help thinking that despite their height, adults were just plain unbelievably stupid: men were blowing up other men; soldiers were shooting at children; men were ignoring women they loved; the women who loved them pretended they didn't; and when I read the newspapers to Pir Hederi everyone they talked about seemed to be far more interested in rules and arguments and taking sides than the actual business of living. ↗

— Andrea Busfield

#business

Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent ↗

— Susan Scott

#business

Has a sense of humor. (Preferably warped.) We know who we are ↗

— Susan Scott

#business