#ra

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. ↗

— Patricia McCormick

#disappointment #expectations #hope #life #strategy

I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school. ↗

— Jimmy Griffin

#dorsey #graduated #high #high school #i

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#hero #i #love #mole #programming

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#paradox #life

…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that we knew by instinct not to speak—and then as quickly as they had come, the porpoises moved away from us…Each of us would remember that all during our lives. It was the purest moment of freedom and headlong exhilaration that I had ever felt. A wordless covenant was set, and I would go back in my imagination, and return to where happiness seemed so easy to touch. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#carolina #tranquility #freedom

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#claim #falls #generation #in the past #next

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#quiet #silence #tranquility #life

In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy. ↗

— David Horowitz

#based #because #could #economy #false

I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky. ↗

— Andy Griffith

#i #i can #really #wise

A full, rich drawing style is a drawback. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#drawing #full #rich #style