#up

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox. The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides. The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun. The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus. The moral of the story? Kids are smart. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cactus #child #children #clever #desert

In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#disruption #doubt #order #revolution #system

Conflict is created by two conditions: the evil that is sanctioned by the corrupted…and the sacrifice borne by upright men and women who chose to destroy it. ↗

— Adam Turquine - from Beyond Mars Crimson Fleet

#corrupt #corruption #evil #politicians #politics

My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent. ↗

— Ray Romano

#growing #growing up #hard #independent #kids

jika bahagian terbaik dari hidup adalah mati maka bahagian terbaik dari tidur adalah mimpi. ↗

— Adrie

#inspirational #life #mati #mimpi #inspirational

The process by which the inanimate becomes animate seems to the audience to be a real miracle. ↗

— Sergei Obraztsov

#puppetry #inspirational

This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds. ...your spirits don't rise until you get way down. Maybe it's because this - the mud, the bottom - is where it all rises from. ...when someone enters that valley with you, that mud, it somehow saves you again. ↗

— Annie Lamott

#inspirational #rising-up #inspirational

Men all do about the same thing when they wake up. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#morning #waking-up #men

Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens. ↗

— Friedrich von Schiller

#stupidity #inspirational

Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #metaphysical #paranormal #supernatural #inspirational