#eli

When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#believe #cliche #how #i #look

Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in. ↗

— River Phoenix

#commercials #i #just #like #me

We were constantly moving to different countries and adjusting to new things. It was such a free feeling. I'm glad I didn't have a traditional upbringing. ↗

— River Phoenix

#constantly #countries #different #different countries #feeling

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#books #carpet #find #footing #going

Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. ↗

— Plato

#feeling #philosopher #philosophy #wonder

I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#finished #had #happy #heats #i

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#believe #built #compounds #day #form

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#design #golf #hands #i #just

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#death #enough #fact #fear #feeling

We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life? ↗

— Frank Pittman

#escape #every #great #how #know