#thing

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#age #around #eight #elderly #expectancy

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#been #nothing #philosopher #said #strange

In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it. ↗

— Dave Thomas

#could #everybody #god #in the beginning #light

But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#addressing #big #big problem #experience #future

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#experience #explain #getting #i #i do

I looked along the aisle and saw her, and it was as if I saw her for the first time. Everything changed. The ancient featureless interior of me spangled orange, mint, cat-blue. I looked back to the window immediately, my face damp, my breath caught. And worried I would never have the courage to look at her again. ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#everything-changed #featureless #first-time #change

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#changes #consisted #contentment #else #existence

If something's important to you, you make time for it. ↗

— Mia Maestro

#make #something #time #you

The most profound things are inexpressible. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#most #profound #things

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success. ↗

— Michael Ironside

#given #involved #least #people #share