#lovely

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. ↗

— William James

#blame #common #determines #does #environment

We started very slow in America. It was small acoustic shows. We played places like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago and everywhere there has been a great reaction. It has been really lovely. They listen to the lyrics and the melody over there and the reaction has been fantastic. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#america #angeles #been #chicago #everywhere

I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#blessed #character #could #day #god

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#dull #good #had #hasn #hiroshima

So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go hold someone’s hand and not have to say anything. Give no story. Make no claim. Where you can live at the edge of your skin for as long as you wish. This wide wide heaven is about flat head nails and the soft down of new leaves, wild roller coaster rides and escaped marbles that fall, then hang, then take you somewhere you could never imagined in your small-heaven dreams. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#dreams

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen? ↗

— Saint Teresa

#little #little thing #lovely #only #possess

I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#been #being #come #i #lovely

I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver. ↗

— David Thewlis

#crew #driver #even #fifth #had

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#around #differently #dinner #down #each

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

#big house #driveway #family #gates #house