#vin

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking? ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#am #fact #feel #having #i

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed. ↗

— Jim Jones

#death #fearful #living #me #thing

There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from. ↗

— Jeffrey Jones

#choose #find #interesting #kinds #living

Or [take] the old cripple worried about choking on his vitamins or tripping if he tries to hobble over that wide crack in the sidewalk. He won’t be bound by mere experience - he renounces it all together as something confusing; the very moment it occurs, it’s forgotten entirely. The young today don’t really live. They take no pills to give their day structure… ↗

— Benson Bruno

#experience #funny #living-life-to-the-full #experience

You have to store up books, becoming acquainted with human experience; let them lie around your thoughts, becoming yours—ring upon ring, as a tree grows, let them rise up from the depths like coral islands. If it gets crowded with all the books and there's nowhere to put your bed, it's better to exchange it for a folding bed ↗

— Viktor Shklovsky

#book-loving #experience

I think for a couple of years I was believing that I was doing it all on my own and I wasn't. ↗

— Star Jones

#couple #doing #i #i think #my own

I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents. ↗

— David Keith

#first #first time #had #i #life

It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#become #every #evident #evolution #evolving

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers. ↗

— Cecil Frank Powell

#also #am #case #conscious #great

Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing.... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#faith #faith