#yin

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#influence #influences #observations #proverb #proverbial-wisdom

There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life...the only college where everyone is a permanent student. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#learning #learning-from-mistakes #learning-process #life-experience #life-lessons

I love to walk through snow, to climb mountains, to smell the fresh air and I love to dream about flying. Soaring through the air, watching the earth from above, feeling the wind in my face and touching the clouds would be an amazing experience. ↗

— Oliver Neubert

#fantasy #first-love #flying #life-skills #middle-grade

Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #motivational #saying #success #wanting

No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#failure #learning #mistakes #richelle #richelle-goodrich

I make a joke of it, but... but I'm afraid of death." He straightened up and turned to look into Joseph's eyes. Joseph saw the fear there and was shocked by the intensity of it. "Are you afraid to die, Joseph?" Joseph considered for a moment, then shook his head. "I'm not afraid to now, but then I'm not dying now. When I come to that moment, I will probably be... what's the right word? Maybe frightened in a way that you're frightened when an experience lies before you you've never had. "No more than that?" "I hope not. ↗

— Gilbert Morris

#death #death-and-dying #dying #fear #death

If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I'd draw the curtains. ↗

— Bill Shankly

#curtains #down #draw #everton #garden

Most kids grow sullen and angry when they’re working through issues, but Thanet mustered up another kind of bull-headed strength. The kind that sees beyond circumstances to what really matters. How could anyone hurt a soul that lovely? ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#cerebral-palsy #dating #glass-girl #grief #henry-whitmire

Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot. ↗

— David Amram

#five #french #french horn #horn #issue

Feeling of crying hard and expressing your deepest pain in the arms of your loved one is much deeper and worth experience than to have laugh and fun with your loved one. ↗

— Shrey Srivastava

#experience