#ma

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.' ↗

— Tommy Chong

#always #black #brother #considered #culture

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material. ↗

— Tommy Chong

#actually #again #beginning #gave #get

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! ↗

— Kate Chopin

#chaotic #disturbing #emerge #especially #ever

In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#clashing #could #crushing #discords #feel

It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#energy #greater #growing #human #moving

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#choices #easy #enjoyable #environment #life

I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#center #chaotic #drama #heal #how

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#creative #impulsive #less #mature #more

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it. ↗

— Chris Fabry

#life-lessons #marital-advice #marriage-advice #experience