#today

i think the idea of a 'mental health day' is something completely invented by people who have no clue what it's like to have bad mental health. the idea that your mind can be aired out in twenty-four hours is kind of like saying heart disease can be cured if you eat the right breakfast cereal. mental health days only exist for people who have the luxury of saying 'i don't want to deal with things today' and then can take the whole day off, while the rest of us are stuck fighting the fights we always fight, with no one really caring one way or another, unless we choose to bring a gun to school or ruin the morning announcements with a suicide. ↗

— David Levithan

#today

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#doubt #earth #evolution #goes #much

Whenever Percy stopped by to see [Annabeth], she was so lost in thought that the conversation went something like this: Percy: 'Hey, how's it going?' Annabeth: 'Uh, no thanks.' Percy: 'Okay...have you eaten anything today?' Annabeth: 'I think Leo is on duty. Ask him.' Percy: 'So, my hair is on fire.' Annabeth: 'Okay, in a while. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#cute #distracted #hair-on-fire #mark-of-athena #not-listening

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. ↗

— John Bunyan

#charity #compassion #generosity #helping-others #today

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it ↗

— David Nicholls

#today

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it. ↗

— Jimmy Dean

#did #gloves #granddaddy #hands #help

I think the clothes in Belle de Jour are very important to the style of the film. Even today, it is still timeless. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#clothes #even #film #i #i think

I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#find #i #icons #idea #incredibly

Compared to today's salaries, our cut was minuscule but it was very good for the time. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#cut #good #minuscule #our #salaries

We live in a time of conflict - external and internal - when we sometimes concentrate too much on what divides us. Today, fly the Stars and Stripes with pride and confidence that what unites is far stronger. ↗

— Charlie Dent

#confidence #conflict #divides #external #far