#liz

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me. ↗

— Ayumi Hamasaki

#dreams #i #long #me #my own

I realize how talented our hair and wardrobe people are every time I have to get dressed on my own. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#every #every time #get #hair #how

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#better #called #get #getting #gotten

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization. ↗

— Shirley Hazzard

#civilization #fear #great #may #out

The temptation is to make an idol of our own experience, to assume our pain is more singular than it is. Experience means nothing if it does not mean beyond itself: we mean nothing unless and until our hard-won meanings are internalized and catalyzed within the lives of others. There is something I am meant to see, something for which my own situation and suffering are the lens, but the cost of such seeing—I am just beginning to realize—may very well be any final clarity or perspective on my own life, my own faith. That would not be a bad fate, to burn up like the booster engine that falls away from the throttling rocket, lighting a little dark as I go. ↗

— Christian Wiman

#idolizing #meaning #experience

The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production system. The third parameter has to do with our commercial world, our search for profits. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#commercial world #contribute #efficiency #general #most

Trade creates jobs and lifts people out of poverty. And when that happens, societies stabilize and grow. And there is nothing like a stable society to fight terrorism and strengthen democracy, freedom and rule of law. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#democracy #fight #freedom #grow #happens

I became a vegetarian out of compassion for animals and to live as healthy as possible. I realized soon after that I was truly concerned with nonviolent consumption and my own health, a vegan diet was the best decision. ↗

— Davey Havok

#became #best #compassion #concerned #consumption

Local companies don't have to internalize their costs, and few actually do, but they tend to more often because the owners live there and they have to show their face in town, and their kids play with other kids. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#because #companies #costs #face #few

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#beauty #beholder #dared #empowers #eye