#orr

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched. ↗

— Patch Adams

#caterpillars #sad #sadness #sorrow #beauty

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#doing #i #i can #idea #next

I've been in the shallow end of a pool, just kind of walking around, but this was my first time really swimming - and I was horrified! I actually lost it whenever I saw the edge of the pool. But I took baby steps and rewarded myself every step of the way. ↗

— Monique Coleman

#around #baby #been #edge #end

I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#about #became #being #book #died

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop. ↗

— Judy Collins

#alas #am #anything #because #ever

I don't like reading things that people say on the Internet because I know so much of it is not true. I don't want to waste my time worrying about what other people are thinking. I just want to focus on being able to do cool projects. ↗

— Lily Collins

#about #because #being #cool #focus

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#corruption #increase #like #must #once

Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#depart #found #i #intend #land

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. ↗

— Confucius

#am #bad #correct #each #good

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ↗

— Confucius

#feel #oppression #should #sink #sorrow