#sing

No," interrupted Marcia emphatically. "And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me." Horace stopped quickly in front of her. "Why do you want me to kiss you?" he asked intently. "Do you just go round kissing people?" "Why, yes," admitted Marcia, unruffled. "'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#life

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#difference #do the right thing #i #just #just be

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#live-in-the-moment #live-life #tea #time #time-passing

It's a blessing Madame Gamache and I had at our wedding. It was read at the end of the ceremony. Now you will feel no rain For each of you will be shelter for the other Now you will feel no cold For each of you will be warmth for the other Now there is no loneliness for you Now there is no more loneliness. Now you are two persons, but there is one life before you. Go now to your dwelling place To enter into the days of your togetherness. And may your days be good and long upon this earth. (Apache Blessing) ↗

— Louise Penny

#life

Some days I miss flying so much it makes my entire chest hurt, feels like I can't breathe sometimes. I try not to think about the fact that I'll never have thousands of feet of air between me and the ground again. But it's those times that I have to remind myself that at least I got the chance to do it sometime in my life. A couple dozen solo flights are better than having never done it at all. ↗

— Keary Taylor

#flying #missing #life

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#focus #focusing-illusion #heuristics #importance #priorities

It seemed so simple in a lot of ways, to use a basic melody to pull away from myself. To ease the pain and hide my feelings deep within a metaphor that only I understood. I couldn’t have foreseen that my quiet and dark night of the soul would start me down a path of expression through song. ↗

— Mike Ericksen

#healing-grief #music #music

Psa 133:1 A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! Psa 133:2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; Psa 133:3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. ↗

— The Spirit Of God

#blessings #david #lord #psalm #scriptures

It is increasingly important to be open-minded. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#increasingly #open-minded

Thus if we know a child has had sufficient opportunity to observe and acquire a behavioral sequence, and we know he is physically capable of performing the act but does not do so, then it is reasonable to assume that it is motivation which is lacking. The appropriate countermeasure then involves increasing the subjective value of the desired act relative to any competing response tendencies he might have, rather than having the model senselessly repeat an already redundant sequence of behavior. ↗

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

#education #psychology #raising-children #education