#once

So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or conceptions, the best educated mind being the mind which has the largest stock of them, ready to meet the largest possible variety of the emergencies of life. The lack of education means only the failure to have acquired them, and the consequent liability to be 'floored' and 'rattled' in the vicissitudes of experience. ↗

— William James

#education #ideas #education

Our eyes met and locked as the song came to a halt, followed by a screaming conclusion from the crowd, girls around us pressing me into the stage, forcing all the air out of my lungs, but I’d forgotten about doing anything so basic as breathing. ↗

— Emme Rollins

#concerts #crowd #crowded #new-adult #new-adult-romance

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. ↗

— Doug Larson

#fishing #important #important things #life #people

Once the amateur's naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his heart an amateur. ↗

— Alfred Eisenstaedt

#amateur #approach #away #creative #creative spirit

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. ↗

— Ben Stein

#exertions #happens #itself #make #nothing

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#accepted #against #beings #between #closest

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#climb #does #epoch #i #i can

You do anything for the person you love,” she said finally. "And then when you don’t think you can give any more of yourself, you do. You keep going. Because it would kill you not to. ↗

— Anna Carey

#once #love

Whenever you're done reading the chapter," he held uo his hands like take your time, "we'll start the concert." With a quick flip of my wrist I gave him the middle finger. He threw his head back and laughed. I looked up at Hawkins, who locked eyes with mine as he sang, "Love in an elevator, lovin' it up, til I hit the ground. ↗

— Leah Spiegel

#hawkins #joie #love

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#story #storytelling #dreams