Fred Rogers
To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
-- Fred Rogers
Quotes
Adjectives
Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order:
opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun
So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac. It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out. And as size comes before colour, green great dragons can't exist.
-- Mark Forsyth, quote from The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
Five recipes for an exciting life (in my opinion)
- Spending enough time creating things with your hands (baking, drawing, scrapbooking, doodling, crocheting, journaling and so on)
- Keeping track of things like pretty skies, milestones, happy memories, appointments you're looking forward to
- Listening to music that genuinely makes you feel happy and energetic
- Making a habit of reaching out to people in a way that's comfortable to you (i send my dad songs he might like, my friend sends me monthly life updates)
- Being kind to all your five senses → like investing in a scented candle or essential oil dispenser or body mist, having a soft blanket or socks (or a soft animal to pet), listening to birdsong or the rain, looking at the sky more often, and having your favorite foods enough times
Albert Einstein2
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
-- Albert Einstein
Cheri Huber
Love as much as you can with what you've got. That's the best you can ever do. It does no good to search frantically for peace, to seek anxiously after love, joy or freedom. It you want joy, be joyful. If you want peace, be peaceful.
-- Cheri Huber
Eleanor Roosevelt
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt