#us

If I ever complain about yachting around the Mediterranean with Madonna, who I just idolized as a child, I should be slapped across the face. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#across #around #child #complain #ever

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#break #comfort #comfort zone #comfortable #creative

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

#retire #simply #something

I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces. ↗

— Alice Walker

#i #just #person #realized #small

Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#anybody #belong #boy #genius #go

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#love #making #music #own #really

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But we are "harmless," and therefore unharmed. We are spiritual pacifists, non-militants, conscientious objectors in this battle-to-the-death with principalities and powers in high places. Meekness must be had for contact with men, but brass, outspoken boldness is required to take part in the comradeship of the Cross. We are "sideliners" -- coaching and criticizing the real wrestlers while content to sit by and leave the enemies of God unchallenged. The world cannot hate us, we are too much like its own. Oh that God would make us dangerous! ↗

— Jim Elliot

#death

When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side. ↗

— Elizabeth Banks

#bad #being #college #every #i

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#anyplace #be happy #chances #generate #happy

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#social-justice #death