#kin

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#choice #desire #doing #good #happiness

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#dined #i #impressed #kings #never

I kinda live where I find myself. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#i #kinda #live #myself #where

I think I have the right to know what Steve Forbes paid in taxes - I don't think there should be a law. I think there should be a presumption. I wouldn't vote for a guy who wouldn't reveal what he paid in taxes. That kind of thing. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#guy #i #i think #kind #know

The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#future #hopes #people #predict #purpose

...that you should be nice to everyone until a person gives you reason not to be, and sometimes even then. ↗

— Lauren Baratz-Logsted

#life #beauty

It's almost ingrained in people that, just like you can't be a smart model, you can't be a good-looking cook. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#cook #good-looking #ingrained #just #like

I don’t know what’s going on with you and Travis, but I know that he’s going to do something stupid to piss you off. It’s a tic he has. He doesn’t get close with anyone very often, and for whatever reason he’s let you in. But you have to overlook his demons. It’s the only way he’ll know.” “Know what?” I asked, raising an eyebrow at his melodramatic speech. “If you’ll climb over the wall,” he answered simply. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#love-story #beauty

Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I've gotten from yoga is breathing. When I'm cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#am #body #breathing #collapses #cooking

The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building. ↗

— David Eagleman

#anything #building #composed #computational #consistency