#yin

You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence. ↗

— William J. H. Boetcker

#cannot #character #courage #destroying #independence

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing. ↗

— Jim Evans

#dad #during #him #i #nights

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#altogether #anyone #avoiding #because #certain time

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul. ↗

— Claire Bloom

#get #i #into #my own #own

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cause #critic #demonstrate #demonstrating #every

But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here. ↗

— Dorothy Dunnett

#always #because #chess #father #fondness

For a person who is dying only eternity counts. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#dying #eternity #only #person #who

My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#career #characters #childhood #elf #fantasies

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#dying #feels #generation #like #maybe

That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me. ↗

— Jo Durie

#been #big #big break #break #break up