#v

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward. ↗

— Todd Barry

#backward #blow #five #kiss #me

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#currents #highs #i #like #lows

As we experience this love, there is a temptation at times to become hostile to our earlier understandings, feeling embarrassed that we were so "simple" or "naive," or "brainwashed" or whatever terms arise when we haven't come to terms with our own story. These past understandings aren't to be denied or dismissed; they're to be embraced. Those experiences belong. Love demands that they belong. That's where we were at that point in our life and God met us there. Those moments were necessary for us to arrive here, at this place at this time, as we are. Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new. ↗

— Rob Bell

#love #past #experience

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#day #every #every day #get #going

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ↗

— John Barth

#hero #his #life #life story #necessarily

Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart. ↗

— Karl Barth

#angels #bach #famille #god #however

The people we consider successful in our society are all people that seize every moment and make the best of each situation. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #motivational #seize-the-day #success #experience

I later asked Mr. Jia about the characters for Christmas. He told me they meant 'holy...birth...festival'---Holy Birthday. So while my students may have never heard the Christmas story, their language still recognized its basic significance, all in just three characters. And those three characters expressed the essential meaning far more succinctly than the Latin-based expressions for Christmas I was familiar with. ↗

— Aminta Arrington

#home

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#books #ceased #friends #give #more

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#blessing #democracy #discipline #freedom #greatest