#except

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. ↗

— Judith Viorst

#feel #like #love #love is #same

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything. ↗

— Alice Walker

#back #child #country #creation #everything

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#better #better place #buddhism #common #end

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. ↗

— Alan Watts

#between #bodies #bounded #cannot #certain

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#doing #ever #every #exception #i

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. In a society like this there is no negotiation, no discussion, except to tell you that power can crush you any time they want - not only you, your whole family and all people like you. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #arbitrary #china #clearly #crush

Everybody is standing, but you must stand out. Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough! Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard! Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles! Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not? ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#best #breakthrough #excel #excellent #exceptional

I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble. ↗

— Earl Warren

#banks #care #except #fees #first

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life. ↗

— Jerry Weller

#ban #except #life #mother #save

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#anything #drain #else #except #god