#plain

If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#jodi-picoult #loss #love #memory #plain-truth

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it. ↗

— Eric Metaxas

#motivational

Her life had been too safe to need courage, and too easy to develop resolve. ↗

— Stephen T. Harper

#fantastic-prose #just-plain-wow-writing #courage

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds. ↗

— William Sloane Coffin Jr.

#christianity #religion #religion-and-children #yale #religion

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#gratitude #perspective #positive-thinking #rose

Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations ago. This is not long by evolutionary standards. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#africa

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#criticism #gossip #speech #gossip

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#followed #harassment #metaphor #metaphor

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems. ↗

— Abdolkarim Soroush

#break #components #concepts #consist #define

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#color #explain #object #perception #position