#thoughtful

I've been doing everything I can to reach out and understand why people voted against me. They were trying to send a message. I have to be more sensitive in the way I express myself, and I have to be more thoughtful in the positions I take. ↗

— James P. Moran

#been #doing #everything #express #i

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#thoughtful #inspirational

There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty-unless she is wed to something more meaningful-is always superficial ↗

— Donna Tartt

#beauty

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives. ↗

— Steve Martin

#inspirational #thoughtful #change

The flock gets sight of a spot of blood on some chicken and they all go to peckin' at it, see, till they rip the chicken to shreds, blood and bones and feathers. But usually a couple of the flock gets spotted in the fracas, then it's their turn. And a few more gets spots and gets pecked to death, and more and more. Oh, a peckin' party can wipe out the whole flock in a matter of a few hours, buddy, I seen it. A mighty awesome sight. The only way to prevent it—with chickens—is to clip blinders on them. So's they can't see. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#death

What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#thoughtful #family

A labyrinth is an ancient series of spiraling circels created on the ground with stones that you walk through. You're supposed to ponder some big question like what you should be when you grow up or if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound? (I say no, because a sound is only invisible waves in the air until it hits someones ear, but Kenny says yes because the resulting crash would still cause vibrations and the earth itself would "here" it.) ↗

— Wendy Mass (Every Soul A Star)

#thoughtfull #funny

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#libraries #thoughtful #inspirational

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians ↗

— Patrick Ness

#librarians #thoughtful #inspirational

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#libraries #thoughtful #inspirational