#or

I think I've changed a little bit. I don't know whether it's for the better or for the worse at the moment. I've settled into a different mind frame now... being a bit wilder maybe! ↗

— Liam Payne

#better #bit #changed #different #frame

Parker fixated on the envelope's precise penmanship as she lifted it. Her grandmother rarely took the time to write her own name in the return address, let alone give it the aesthetic attention that this one so seemed to demand. Once, when Parker questioned her on this, her grandmother casually asserted that she "didn't quite believe in envelopes" as if this were a debatable concept like Socialism or wearing white after Labor Day. ↗

— Abby Slovin

#humor-inspirational #inspirational

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#energy #lose #more #something #than

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#american cinema #become #cesspool #change #cinema

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#drink #drunk #floor #lies #more

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair. ↗

— Amanda Pays

#chair #comfort #comfortably #enjoy #few

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#change #dialectic #lies #neither #nor

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers. ↗

— William Penn

#defenders #does #heat #more #nothing

God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#creativity #endowed #every #existence #god

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#adult #adult life #been #certainly #convinced