#nin

Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn't like that, for anybody; you can't fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You can't live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You can't wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You can't wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you can't know what's yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have- that's yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#growth #humanism #humanity #inspirational #inspirational-life

I started running away when I was five years old. It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized what I really wanted was somebody to come after me when I was running away. ↗

— Willie Aames

#after #away #come #five #i

I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#countries #east #energy #hope #i

When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#come running #confrontation #everybody #military #pick

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#away #end #happening #i #ideas

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#destruction #examining #fears #filmmakers #issues

In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies. ↗

— Jack Adams

#been #had #japanese #out #spies

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#care #dodging #establishing #god #made

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#bottom #got #i #myself #out

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#anybody #because #borrowed #grant #how