#too

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#careful #everybody #knows #occupied #over

You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it. ↗

— Robert Karl Hanson

#animation #cartoon #children-s-book #cute #kid-s-books

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#disappointment #expectation #hope #much #sort

I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#genius #misunderstood #genius

Socialism? We've had way too much of it already. ↗

— Steve Steckler

#had #much #socialism #too #too much

On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#employees #ethnic #ethnic groups #followers #groups

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#give #noble #offense #should #take

By first believing in Santa Claus, then the Easter Bunny, then the Tooth Fairy, Rant Casey was recognizing that those myths are more than pretty stories and traditions to delight children. Or to modify behavior. Each of those three traditions asks a child to believe in the impossible in exchange for a reward. These are stepped-up tests to build a child's faith and imagination. The first test is to believe in a magical person, with toys as the reward. The second test is to trust in a magical animal, with candy as the reward. The last test is the most difficult, with the most abstract reward: To believe, trust in a flying fairy that will leave money. From a man to an animal to a fairy. From toys to candy to money. Thus, interestingly enough, transferring the magic of faith and trust from sparkling fairy-dom to clumsy, tarnished coins. From gossamer wings to nickels... dimes... and quarters. In this way, a child is stepped up to greater feats of imagination and faith as he or she matures. Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#conditioning #santa-claus #tooth-fairy #faith

The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed. ↗

— Adam Levin

#fear #misunderstood #betrayal