#try

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all. ↗

— Peter Davison

#getting #head #makes #more #people

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#any #expectations #failure #i #level

Turkey is a European country, an Asian country, a Middle Eastern country, Balkan country, Caucasian country, neighbor to Africa, Black Sea country, Caspian Sea, all these. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#asian #black #caucasian #country #eastern

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #born #generosity #let us #selfish

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#because #bible #culture #emphatically #fiction

People are trying to grab every part of you, so it's really hard to focus. ↗

— Yani Tseng

#focus #grab #hard #part #people

I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours and 45 minutes of the day, I'm a human trying to make it through in this world. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#day #fleeting #get #hours #human

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#few #game #good #good idea #idea

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#created #mystery #something #try #unravel

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#everybody #everything #force #hard #how