#eli

The 'believe' tattoo is because my mom always told me to believe. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#because #believe #me #mom #tattoo

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. ↗

— Claude Debussy

#discarded #explored #feeling #flesh #how

When it's said and done, the one thing I want to leave on this earth is hope. I have felt hopelessness, and it's a terrible feeling. Hopelessness will destroy you. I want to bring hope to other people. ↗

— Paula Deen

#destroy #done #earth #feeling #felt

When we compile a petition, we often have members go to their representative's or Senator's offices and deliver it in person. This way they can experience a real connection with the staff. ↗

— Joan Blades

#connection #deliver #experience #go #his way

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#acting #balance #believe #dual #fact

Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me. ↗

— Iris Dement

#believes #call #damned #fight #guy

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. ↗

— John Denham

#delight #ends #fours #piety #should

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#bodies #fact #highest #highest wisdom #itself

People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this. ↗

— Kat Dennings

#drinking #hype #letting #make #mistake

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. ↗

— John Dewey

#beliefs #compelled #compromises #even #hangs