#gr

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#gratitude #joy #mindfulness #zen #life

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate. ↗

— Debra Winger

#give #give me #granted #great #i

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does. ↗

— Molly Parker

#else #grow #grow up #landscape #nowhere

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#changes #constitutes #distasteful #friends #growing

A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#brutally #creeps #express #flesh #get

When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#god #grief #loss #religion #faith

Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But again, those advantages won't mean much if we don't do a great job with the basics of our business. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#again #amenities #basics #business #cannot

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced. ↗

— John Peers

#get #gets #greased #often #replaced

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound. ↗

— Alicia Witt

#better #get #grow #into #more

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree. ↗

— Phaedrus

#disagree #humble #power #those