#stead

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#choose #compelled #environment #feels #free

As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#best #country #customer #demands #england

In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#efficient #former #latter #made #only

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. ↗

— Julian Castro

#civil rights #could #fought #hard #hold

My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call. ↗

— Cathy Guisewite

#always #call #diary #eating #evenings

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#created #did #going #instead #job

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. ↗

— James Thomas Fields

#barn #blessing #crown #descend #door

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead. ↗

— Clarence Clemons

#electric #got #i #instead #saxophone

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known. ↗

— Confucius

#concerned #fit #how #instead #known

I've chosen not to live in Hollywood, and instead I live in Brooklyn, New York. It's how I like to live. I'd rather hang out with my kids and family when I'm not working. Going to premieres is not my idea of a fun night out. ↗

— Jennifer Connelly

#chosen #family #fun #going #hang