#familia

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly. ↗

— Rihanna

#bored #doing #familiar #get #going

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#engaging #familiar #familiar things #make #most

Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ↗

— George Sand

#familiarity #strangers

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#archimedes #familiar #his #life #now

The familiar is by far the most beautiful. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#familiarity #intimacy #beauty

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#art

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. ↗

— Henry Villard

#come #details #did #familiarity #flattered

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #marriage #partner #years #love

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#break #comfort #comfort zone #comfortable #creative

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time. ↗

— Eric Bana

#amount #familiar #fortunate #had #i