#lightening

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be. ↗

— Elizabeth Lesser

#enlightening #life #transition #change

Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact. ↗

— Barack Obama

#before #cutting #deficit #education #engine

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#controversy #details #enlightening #important #more

When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on that keyboard!, write songs, sing, dance, Facebook, Twitter and spend time with my besties. I am also a songwriter and I love to write about my life experiences. ↗

— Ariel Winter

#also #am #dance #experiences #facebook

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright. ↗

— Beth Henley

#enlightening #kind #playwright

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience. ↗

— Michael Eisner

#enlightening #experience #failing #good #life

People that are 40, they don't sit around at talk about gray hair and how it covers their hair. They talk about highlighting, of course they're covering gray, but they don't talk about it that way. They're going to get their colors because they need a little lightening. ↗

— Andie MacDowell

#around #because #colors #course #covering

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#eyes #falling #love #love is #new

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter. ↗

— Susan Powter

#bills #cash #dance #enlightening #gutter