#so

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids. ↗

— Shirley Jones

#could #fact #family #family structure #financially

I can get whatever I want to eat and when you, you know, you forget to eat you sometimes pick up fast food. ↗

— Star Jones

#fast #fast food #food #forget #get

You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#philosophy #survivor #change

We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it. ↗

— Terry Jones

#against #any #ask #burn #burning

You can't be a sexy person unless you have something sexy to offer. With me, it's my voice: the way that I sing, the way I express myself when I sing. ↗

— Tom Jones

#i #me #myself #offer #person

I’m just saying it doesn’t always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#life-lessons #madness #experience

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#good #hold #holding #i #rather

There is no problem this universe can hand you that you aren't innately designed to solve. If it has been handed to you, it can be handled by you. This is the brilliant effectiveness of our design. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #life #motivation #problem #solve

exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted. And while it is true that literature and history contain heroic, romantic, glorious, even triumphant episodes in an exile’s life, these are no more than efforts meant to overcome the crippling sorrow of estrangement. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#exile #migration #sorrow #experience

I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something ↗

— Jamie Zeppa

#inspirational #learn #lesson #life #opportunity