#ps

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

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#complaints #first #justice #obey #stops

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#age #around #been #careful #chance