#som

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#bearable #because #body #either #fight

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#could #family #me #need #partly

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#exactly #gone #gone with the wind #i #just

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen. ↗

— Leon Spinks

#i #i can #kind #knowledge #life

As soon as you think you know someone else's truth better than they do, you are in deep water. ↗

— Martha Beck

#deep #else #know #someone #soon

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise. ↗

— Martha Beck

#around #bedroom #believe #caring #choosing

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#concern #eyes #first #future #globalization

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#defeated #educated #refusal #some

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends. ↗

— Walter Becker

#contemporary #ends #i #jazz #listen

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#able #art #big #called #century