#ps

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#civilizations #collapsed #history #moral #nineteen

The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes... It's not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#acting #always #any #go #good

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#always #anger #been #bit #chill

The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#africa #african #beyond #central #consequences

You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a woman. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#great #happens #just #lap #plan

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#anything #attached #close #conceal #heart

The terrorists know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts. They understand that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

#democratic #democratic iraq #derail #efforts #free

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic. ↗

— Suzanne C. Segerstrom

#psychology #attitude

A wounded deer leaps the highest. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#highest #leaps #wounded

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#hard #hard times #muscles #need #oppression