#yin

Worry is stressing about a situation that may or may not occur and it’s always in the negative sense. ↗

— Rob Liano

#fear #future #growth #worry #worrying

Death can come slow. Death can come quick. If you've got one last breath, you better make the most of it. ↗

— A.H. Scott

#happiness-life #happiness-positive-attitude #humor #inspiration #life-living

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best. ↗

— Townes Van Zandt

#do your best #doing #ever #i #process

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care. ↗

— Billy Zane

#care #enjoying #enough #i #know

Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law. ↗

— George Herbert Mead

#applying #call #certain #data #his

You always think that 70 is the end of the road: 'Somebody died when they were 73; good life'. You're closer to death, and you better make sure you don't waste too much of your time doing things you don't want to do. No point in saying things you don't believe in. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#believe #better #closer #death #died

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands, the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly! ↗

— Roman Payne

#beauty #carpe-diem #dying #holding-hands #laughter

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music. ↗

— James Joyce

#music #tears #words #beauty

The death rate for people who play it safe and for those who live boldly is the same. ↗

— Patti Digh

#death #living-life-to-the-fullest-bold #playing-it-safe #courage

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after. ↗

— Moon Unit Zappa

#after #anything #being #being famous #more