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tabloidtoc · 4 years ago

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OK, December 21

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: Queen Elizabeth cancels Christmas

Page 1: Big Pic -- David Beckham in an ad for Haig Club

Page 2: Contents

Page 4: Bella and Olivia Jade Giannulli -- life on their own -- find out what Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli’s daughters have been up to while their famous parents sweat it out in prison -- Bella has been so stressed out and felt she deserved a trip with her buds so she went to a luxury resort in Santa Barbara over Thanksgiving weekend

Page 6: It’s been a little over a year since Felicity Huffman was released from prison after serving her time for role in the college admissions scandal but she is finally starting to get her life and career back on track -- initially she was nervous about working again given the controversy and everything that went down and she seriously wondered if there would be anything out there for her material-wise but she shouldn’t have worried as she landed a part in an upcoming pilot in which she’ll play a recently widowed owner of a Triple-A baseball team and she’s really excited about the show

Page 7: Kristin Cavallari is fed up with Carrie Underwood’s meddling in her divorce from Jay Cutler -- after Kristin called time on her seven-year marriage Carrie and her husband Mike Fisher who used to be Nashville couple-friends to both Kristin and Jay have taken Jay’s side and since then there’s been some snide stuff said that’s made it clear how Carrie really fills about Kristin -- while Jay spent Thanksgiving with Carrie and Mike, Kristin filmed a wine-fueled Instagram Live and Carrie finds this type of thirsty behavior on social media incredibly lame and she’s saying it’s obvious Kristin cares more about upping her profile than making any type of family peace

* After nearly 60 years in showbiz Cher has a different aspirations -- since traveling to Pakistan to help a mistreated elephant from a local zoo be relocated to an animal sanctuary she’s saying this is her new mission to help endangered species in third world countries and campaign for other good eco causes -- Cher spends much of her time cooped up and bored in her Malibu mansion and her trip made her realize there’s a world out there that needs her help

* Mark Harmon of NCIS is all work and no play these days and nearly two decades in the same TV gig as Leroy Gibbs has only made things worse as the responsibilities of the show seem to wear heavier on Mark by the year and even on a break you can’t get him to crack a smile or tell a joke; he’d rather go lie down in his trailer -- off set Mark and his wife of 33 years Pam Dawber get along because they’re such homebodies and Mark can usually be found working on his cars in the garage or relaxing in the yard and he cherishes his quiet time but people have stopped inviting him out because he’s known as Mr. Boring

Page 8: Dolly Parton is spreading Christmas cheer far and wide with a new TV special and album and Netflix movie but at her home in Tennessee the holiday spirit is decidedly lacking because Dolly is forgoing her favorite 40-year-running traditions which are filling her house with trees and driving her nieces and nephews and their kids around her farm in golf carts dressed as Santa and handing out presents because of her concern for her husband Carl Dean who has Alzheimer’s disease and he’s in a high-risk group for coronavirus so she’s restricted the property to just them and two staff members -- it breaks Dolly’s heart to have to cancel her big annual celebration and she’s still decorated her home to the nines but it’s a lonely feeling knowing the family won’t be there to see it

* Prince William and Duchess Kate Middleton are proving themselves to be perfectly postmodern parents by raising their kids Prince George and Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis with firm rules for TV and electronic use -- Kate who recently revealed she’s fielded her share of temper tantrums actively attempts to stave off meltdowns with a strict rewards chart and the kids have to earn screen time -- Kate prefers to keep them busy with activities like board games and hikes and baking which the children enjoy anyway

* After spending the last several years living a relatively low-key life in his native England Russell Brand is desperate to have a bigger presence in Hollywood but his wife Laura insists he stay put -- Russell’s craving SoCal living and the copious acting jobs and event invites that came with it but Laura prefers their British life outside the spotlight with their young daughters -- while some work has come to him in England like the upcoming Death on the Nile if he had his way he’d make a more aggressive career push in L.A.

Page 10: Red Hot on the Red Carpet -- stars stand out in festive green dresses -- Carly Pearce, Angela Bassett, Zendaya

Page 11: Jodie Comer, Adriana Lima

Page 12: Who Wore It Better? Melissa Gorga vs. Jennifer Lahmers, Abigail Spencer vs. Hailey Bieber in Max Mara, Olivia Culpo vs. Aurora Culpo

Page 14: News in Photos -- Brooke Burke with Christmas ornaments that will be auctioned by non-profit Operation Smile

Page 16: Audrina Patridge brought along her daughter Kirra’s favorite toys for a picnic in Beverly Hills, Padma Lakshmi visits The Vitamin Shoppe in NYC, Brandy at the BET Soul Train Awards

Page 17: Kelly Rutherford felt the love from her dogs in L.A., Shawn Mendes out for a walk in Miami

Page 21: Robin Wright and husband Clement Giraudet held hands while riding their bikes in L.A., long-time friends Gabrielle Union and Snoop Dogg unpacked ingredients delivered by Shipt

Page 22: Josh Duhamel on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Karlie Kloss on her new Adidas collection

Page 24: Vanessa Hudgens snuggled up to her beloved pup Darla while at the park in L.A., Jay-Z taking a walk around the island in Hawaii

Page 25: Kimora Lee Simmons and her children handed out food to residents of a housing complex, Prince Jackson safely helped a community church distribute food to those in need

Page 26: Inside My Home -- Ariel Winter’s stylish setup

Page 28: Like most Garth Brooks and wife Trisha Yearwood have had a challenging 2020 but their 15-year marriage was put to the test this past summer when the country superstars’ daughter Allie tested positive for Covid-19 -- they were worried sick and had to go into quarantine themselves and not being able to hold Allie’s hand was terrible for both of them but fortunately Allie’s case was mild and Garth and Trisha’s tests came back negative

Page 30: Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott who have amicably coparented their daughter Stormi since their split last year and recently spent Thanksgiving together as a family are drawing up plans to have another baby together in 2021 because both of them want to give Stormi a sibling ASAP and neither can imagine going through this process with anyone else -- the exes are figuring out a contract to specify their family plans that will protect Kylie’s money and outline coparenting terms more formally and give them each an agreeable share of custody if things don’t stay as rosy down the line

* They’ve costarred in five films and have proclaimed they’re each other’s work wives and are finally single at the same time so pals of Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis are urging the longtime friends to give it a go romantically especially now that Jason has split from Olivia Wilde -- Jennifer always says Jason makes her laugh the way no one else can -- while Jason’s primarily focusing on coparenting his kids he’s long harbored warm and fuzzy feelings toward Jen and he would love to ask her out but the only thing holding him back is the potential to ruin their solid friendship

* Love Bites -- Johnny Galecki and Alaina Meyer split, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky dating, Jonathan Bennett and Jaymes Vaughan engaged

Page 31: Matthew Perry’s loved ones are worried the Friends star has made a rash call by suddenly getting engaged to literary manager Molly Hurwitz -- the on-off two-year romance between Matthew and Molly has been dysfunctional from the get-go and Matthew’s way more into this than Molly who seems to love him more like a brother

* A rough year for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle including inter-family strife and a move across the pond and a devastating miscarriage has only strengthened their bond -- after Meghan revealed she and Harry had miscarried in July the two were quite overwhelmed by the outpouring of compassion and the response not only validated their decision to go public a thousand times over but it also helped them grow even closer -- they’re determined to put this behind them and try for another baby at the earliest opportunity but more than anything else it’s really underlined how they belong together as soulmates

Page 32: Cover Story -- Queen Elizabeth’s holiday shake-up -- inside the monarch’s heartbreaking decision to call off the family’s annual Christmas celebration -- the queen will celebrate the holidays at Windsor Castle in Berkshire for the first time in more than three decades -- while the queen is upset not to have the company of the younger royals this year she has to think about her and Prince Philip’s health

Page 36: Katie Holmes’ season of joy -- how Katie is spending the holidays with her new love Emilio Vitolo Jr.

Page 38: Mistaken Identity -- with these celeb look-alikes it’s deja vu all over again -- Carrie Underwood and Reese Witherspoon, Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood

Page 39: Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon, Amy Adams and Isla Fisher, Lucy Hale and Selena Gomez

Page 40: Interview -- Tommy Lee’s new beat -- the veteran rock star opens up about his latest solo album and his new fan base

Page 42: Gal Power -- how Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot gets into superhero shape

Page 43: Fight Club -- these buttkicking superheroines pushed themselves to new limits -- Brie Larson, Scarlett Johansson, Danai Gurira

Page 46: Style -- Zendaya for Lancome’s new mascara

Page 48: Sleek activewear from celeb-loved label Gigi C Bikinis makes it easy to look like a star when you work out

Page 49: 5 minutes with Adrienne Bailon

Page 54: Entertainment

Page 58: Buzz -- Disney Holiday Singalong featuring Ryan Seacrest, Katy Perry, Pink and daughter Willow, Ciara and her kids Future and Sienna

Page 60: Sound Bites -- Nelly on feeling disappointed with placing third on Dancing With the Stars, Kaley Cuoco on husband Karl Cook’s social media presence, Megan Fox on first meeting boyfriend Machine Gun Kelly

Page 61: Paul McCartney on why he doesn’t like taking pictures with fans, Cardi B joking about how her 2-year-old crashed her selfie video

Page 62: Horoscope -- Sagittarius Vanessa Hudgens turned 32 on December 14

Page 64: By the Numbers -- Dan Levy

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mst3kproject · 5 years ago

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Kingdom of the Spiders

Yep, this is the one with William Shatner in it. It was directed by John ‘you really undermine your authority when you put Bud in the middle of your name’ Cardos, who did the same job for The Day Time Ended and Outlaw. It’s also available on Rifftrax, so I think we’re fully qualified for EtNW status… but if you need one more returning star, we have of course the much-maligned Mexican Red-Knee Tarantula.

The Shatmeister is Dr. Robert Hansen, the vet in these here parts. He’s not sure what caused Mr. Colby’s prize calf to suddenly fall sick and die, so he summons help that arrives in the form of Dr. Diane Ashley, an expert on venomous animals. She quickly determines that the area is being invaded by huge, pissed-off tarantulas! The over-use of pesticides has forced the spiders to evolve, and they’ve become social hunters with a more concentrated and deadly venom. In large numbers they’re capable of taking down cattle, dogs… and maybe even humans. The soundtrack consists of terrible country songs, all of them by the same guy you’ve never heard of.

As 70’s Nature’s Revenge movies go, Kingdom of the Spiders is… adequate. It’s not remarkably bad, but there’s nothing particularly creative or interesting in it, either. The direction is nondescript – none of the shots are visually striking, but anything artsy would be out-of-place in a film that’s intended to look as down-to-earth as the farmers and cowboys that populate it. There’s a county fair that stands in for the Fourth of July Weekend from Jaws, and a ‘spider hill’ that serves as the Smaller Shark, but both of them are mentioned and then just kind of go away, rather than fulfilling any role in the plot. They’re there for the same reason as the love triangle, because movies are supposed to have those.

The love triangle is what’ll make you hate Shatner’s character. Dr. Hansen seems dedicated to his work and he’s kind to his neighbours, but he’s an absolute ass to women. He seems to have a thing going on with his dead brother’s widow, Terri, which is very Claudius of him, but he rejects her almost violently when she accidentally calls him by her husband’s name. In one scene he teases that he might marry her himself, and then a day later he’s bringing Diane by to introduce her, which results in Terri fleeing to the kitchen to cry. The impression we get is that he can read her signals, he just doesn’t give a shit.

He’s a jerk to Diane, too. He asks her on a date moments after saying he has to go see ‘his girl’ that afternoon. It turns out he’s referring to his four-year-old niece, but he didn’t clarify that until after he asked Diane out, which can only mean he deliberately led her to think he wants to cheat on somebody with her. Later when he wants her attention, he runs her off the road and basically kidnaps her for dinner with him, and then he drives her car after she’s angrily told him not to. He teases her about her feminism and makes her open beers for him… and of course this is supposed to be Twu Wuv.

Like a lot of useless love triangles in a lot of useless movies, this one is resolved when the third party dies. Shatner therefore doesn’t have to choose – if Terri had lived and he’d chosen Diane instead, she might have decided to reduce Hansen’s time with her daughter Linda, whom he clearly adores. With Terri dead, he gets Diane and the child all to himself. Terri was nothing but an inconvenience, and is summarily disposed of.

I did like Diane, though. She comes across as kind of a snotty bitch when we first meet her, but she warms up fast. My favourite part of the movie is when she sees a gigantic tarantula crawling out of a drawer at her hotel room, and she immediately picks it up, pets it, and tells it it’s pretty! How could I not like this lady? Apparently actress Tiffany Bolling got the role mostly because she was willing to do that while their first choice, Barbara Hale (of The Giant Spider Invasion) was not. She deserved way better than to be William Shatner’s love interest.

The unfortunate thing about this sequence is it, and a couple more in which Diane happily handles the spiders without harm, rather undercuts the idea that they’re supposed to be aggressively seeking out human prey. There are other scenes in which we watch humans run around madly, screaming and flailing, while the spiders merely sit there not doing very much. Worst of all are two separate sequences in which a fatal accident seems to result not from spiders attacking people, but from people freaking out because a spider was in a vehicle! It makes the whole movie feel like an over-reaction.

I do realize this may be my personal reaction, rather than the average one… somebody who’s actually scared of spiders might find this completely horrifying. But… you know spiders move at like one mile an hour, right? The Creeping Terror could catch them. Just go get in your car, and drive away. It would have worked for the sheriff if the crowd hadn’t slowed him down!

Moving along – the characters of the Colbys, a farming couple who’ve poured everything they have into their herd of cattle only to see their livelihood destroyed, are people we can pity but we know better than to get attached to them. The opening scene is Mr. Colby bragging about how his calf is a shoe-in for first prize, and you know right away that he’s destined to lose everything. The series of tragedies that ensue for the couple are all similarly telegraphed.

At the end we see a terrible matte painting depicting the entire town draped in spiderwebs. This looks so bad it’s actually difficult to figure out what we’re seeing, and I’m not at all sure what it’s meant to tell us. Diane had talked about the spiders ‘migrating’, implying that they’re just passing through. So are we meant to think that now they’ve killed everyone else, the spiders have moved on and our so-called heroes can escape? Because there are no actual spiders in the image, just their webs. On the other hand, Diane also talked about spiders storing their food by wrapping it in webs. So are they gonna come back to eat everybody later? But it’s just a spiderweb… the humans can rip it apart and go. Did the characters win, or lose? Are they going to live or die? The movie just runs out of ideas and ends.

This is a bit of a shame, because the core idea here is kind of neat. The spiders have become monsters not because chemicals or radiation has mutated them, but because evolution did. Diane explains that over-use of pesticides has done two things: one is to create DDT-resistant spiders in the same way as misuse of antibiotics creates drug-resistant bacteria. The ones that can tough it out survive and produce similarly tough offspring. Second, the pesticides have killed off the spiders’ usual prey, forcing them to turn to alternative sources of food. Spiders with more potent venom are better able to kill large prey – as are those that work together.

I actually like this better than the idea of monsters made by pollution. The toxic monster genre can’t really be about nature striking back because the creatures in it are truly un-natural. When it is evolution that makes monsters, that is nature demonstrating that it is more powerful than we are. It’s also more realistic, I guess, though only in a movie-science-y kind of way. It’s not very plausible that the spiders could evolve so fast – the major changes in their behaviour would probably take many, many thousands of generations – but at least we know that evolution is a thing that happens, whereas exposure to radiation or toxic chemicals just kills stuff. Too bad the concept seems to make for terrible movies.

Unfortunately, if the movie’s point is supposed to be that nature is tougher than us, the vague ending kind of undercuts it. As I mentioned, we don’t really know if the protagonists are going to live to see another day. Diane says that if insects turned on humanity we wouldn’t last long, but at the end the main characters are still alive. There are movies in which an open ending is perfectly appropriate, but in this one it just feels incomplete. If I were writing this, I would have the humans escape to another town or city, onto to find that the spiders have gotten there first. That would be a little cliché, but it would make the point that while minor victories are possible, in the end the battle of man versus nature can only have one winner.

Kingdom of the Spiders is fairly well-known as a ‘bad movie’, and I expected I would either love it or hate it, but in the end I did neither. I dislike Shatner’s characters rather strongly, but I’ve seen worse, and he��s not as stilted here as he is in some of his work. The rest of them are okay. The music sucks but it’s pretty forgettable, as opposed to things like The Sad Mushroom Ukelele Anthem that crawl inside your ear and nest there like a botfly larva (if you don’t know what that is, do not google it, I refuse to take responsibility for what you’ll learn). I think a big part of the problem for both this and other spider movies like Tarantulas: the Deadly Cargo and Arachnophobia is just that live spiders don’t make good actors. You can’t direct them. It’s really hard to take something seriously as a threat when it’s just kinda wandering around.

Speaking of Arachnophobia, apparently producer Igo Kantor believed it was a deliberate ripoff of Kingdom of the Spiders. He didn’t do anything about it because, and I quote, “you don’t go and sue Spielberg.” That’s a good enough excuse, I suppose, but I bet he and the makers of Parts: the Clonus Horror would have a lot to commiserate about.

#mst3k #reviews #episodes that never were #kingdom of the spiders #tw: spiders #70s #non hamlet reviews that mention hamlet

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aliverse · 4 years ago

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gossip girl, lucy hale, blair waldorf

Name: Barbara “Babs” Bass Age: A year younger than Chuck Title: Only A Girl (Knows How A Girl Feels) Theme Song: Treat You Better by Shawn Mendes Summary: Barbara Bass knows one thing and one thing only for absolute certain; her brother is a dick. She’d like to say she makes up for it with extreme kindness, but she has her own issues and sometimes she’s not the nicest person either. The same could be said for Constance’s Queen Of Mean, Blair Waldorf.

In theory, Blair and Chuck would make the perfect couple. But there is one thing Barbara is pretty sure of, she and Blair may not be nice people, but they are not bad people. And so, Barbara cannot let Chuck ruin Blair. Blair’s ex boyfriend is an asshole she should never get back with, so Barbara has a thought she buried years ago; If your boyfriend doesn’t treat you right, there’s always a lesbian who will.

Once again a horrible summary but a concept I love. Anyways Babs would be no angel, but she’s what Blair deserves. Someone who will treat her like the queen she is.

#pb: barbara babs bass #type: answered #pb ask game

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ao3feed-timdrake · 5 years ago

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Lost Little Wolf

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3bh1hvH

by HadesLittleGirl (HellionOfTheOutlaws22)

Hale, Crock, Wayne, then Hale again. Elena's life has never been easy, and she'd be surprised if it started being easy now.

Words: 564, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV), Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Under the Red Hood, Titans (TV 2018), DCU (Comics)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Major Character Death

Categories: Gen

Characters: Original Hale Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Derek Hale, Talia Hale, Jason Todd, Lawrence Crock, Artemis Crock, Jade Nguyen, Bruce Wayne, Dick Grayson, Isaac Lahey, Paula Crock, Roy Harper, Barbara Gordon, Tim Drake, Alfred Pennyworth, Clark Kent, Diana (Wonder Woman)

Relationships: Jason Todd & Original Female Character(s), Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Derek Hale & Original Female Character(s), Bruce Wayne & Original Female Character(s)

Additional Tags: Why Did I Write This?, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, Author Is Sleep Deprived, Were-Creatures, Partners in Crime, Orphans, Street Rats, Fire, Post-Hale Fire (Teen Wolf), Canonical Character Death, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Tags Are Hard, Grief/Mourning, Dick Jokes, Anger, Foster Care, Jason Todd Deserves Better, Bruce Wayne is a Bad Parent, Bruce Wayne is a Good Parent, Tim Drake is Bad at Self-Care, Dick Grayson is Nightwing, BAMF Barbara Gordon, Good Older Sibling Barbara Gordon, Brother-Sister Relationships, Big Sisters, Temporary Character Death, Bisexual Female Character, Smol Jason Todd, Platonic Soulmates

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/3bh1hvH

#IFTTT #ao3feed #fanfic #DC #DC comics #Tim Drake #Batman #teen titans #young justice

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marcusssanderson · 6 years ago

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70 Inspirational Faith Quotes and Sayings on Being Blessed

Our latest collection of inspirational faith quotes that will inspire you to keep believing in your dreams.

Faith can be defined as “being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” It is the understanding, deep down within, that things will turn out all right for us no matter what the situation might be.

Whether you acknowledge it or not, faith is an important part of life. If we didn’t have faith, life would cease to have meaning. We would not be able to move from one moment to the next without doubting every last thing that we did.

Life can get tough at times. When things get remarkably difficult, it’s faith that keeps us going. It gives us strength in times of weakness and illuminates the pathway in times of darkness.

The reason why having faith is so important is that it powerfully convinces you that everything will go according to plan. That’s why without faith we are nothing.

To encourage you to have strong faith in a positive outcome and fight for your dreams, here are some inspirational faith quotes, faith sayings, and faith proverbs.

Inspirational faith quotes and sayings on being blessed

1.) Life is full of happiness and tears; be strong and have faith. – Kareena Kapoor Khan

2.) Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale

3.) My faith didn’t remove the pain, but it got me through the pain. Trusting God didn’t diminish or vanquish the anguish, but it enabled me to endure it. – Robert Rogers

4.) Faith is unquestioning belief. – Ronald Hopfer

5.) A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being. – James E. Faust

6.) Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish. – Brad Henry

7.) “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”― C.S. Lewis

8.) Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there. – Cullen Hightower

9.) The Lord is faithful to those who are faithful and earnestly seek Him. – Ben Lance

10.) Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational faith quotes to give you inner strength

11.) Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. – Mary McLeod Bethune

12.) Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life. – Gregory Peck

13.) “Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”― J.R.R. Tolkien

14.) “It is the things that we go through that prove our faith and test our godly character.”- Scott F Neve

15.) Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. – Voltaire

16.) I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors. – Joel Osteen

17.) “Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.” ― Max Lucado

18.)“Keep faith. The most amazing things in life tend to happen right at the moment you’re about to give up hope.” – Anonymous

19.) “If one has faith, one has everything.” – Ramakrishna

20.) “If you lose faith, you lose all.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational faith quotes to help take away your fears

21.) “Don’t be afraid to step out in faith for God.” – Olivia Hope

22.) “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”― Corrie ten Boom

23.) “Choose faith instead of fear and life will become a lot more fun.” – Dave Willis

24.) “Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” –Mother Teresa

25.) “None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.” ― Paulo Coelho

26.) “Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.” ― Joseph Campbell

27.) “The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” ― J.M. Barrie

28.) “Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.” —Elisabeth Elliot

29.) “God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.” —A.W. Tozer

30.) “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl

Inspirational faith quotes and saying to get you through pain and difficulties

31.) “Otherwise without faith it becomes very difficult to keep pushing forward every day.” – Darrin Wiggins

32.) “Let us keep moving,” I urged them, “with the faith that what we are doing is right, and with the even greater faith that God is with us in the struggle.” – Martin Luther King Jr

33.) “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

34.) “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― William Faulkner

35.) “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ― Pablo Neruda

36.) “Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.” – Kahlil Gibran

37.) “Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.” – Roy T. Benne

38.) “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” – Rabindranath Tagore

39.) “It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

40.) “If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.” – Roopleen

More inspirational faith quotes and sayings

41.) “Worrying is arrogant because God knows what He’s doing.” —Barbara Cameron

42.) “Have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.” – Roy T. Bennett

43.) “Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.” – Thomas Merton

44.) “Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.” – Paul Tillich

45.) There is never a moment when God is not in control. Relax! He’s got you covered. – Mandy Hale

46.) Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. – M. Antoniinus

47.) “Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods” – C.S. Lewis

48.) To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed, not in darkness, but in light – Mother Teresa

49.) “You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.” – Mary Manin Morrissey

50.) “Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.” – Kahlil Gibran

Uplifting faith quotes to inspire you

51.) “Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the sense.” – Henry Ward Beech

52.) “Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right.” ~John Donne

53.) “Faith is a choice to trust God even when the road ahead seems uncertain.” – Dave Willis

54.) “Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.” ~Colette Baron-Reid

55.) “To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” – Thomas Aquinas

56.) “Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”- Dante Alighieri

57.) “If you will believe and stay in faith, and expect good things, you too can defy the odds.” – Joel Osteen

58.) “Faith that lives on emotion dies with emotion. Faith that is rooted, not in how we feel but in how we live, survives the emotional roller coaster of the holiday seasons.” – S. Joseph Krempa

59.) “Faith is not merely hope, and it must be more than belief; faith is a knowing of the heart.” – Rev. Floyd and M. Elaine Flake

60.) “Faith is a firm trust and conviction that sometimes if God doesn’t give you what you think you want, it’s not because you don’t deserve it, but because you deserve better.” – David A. R. White

Other faith quotes to inspire hope and love

61.) “To me faith means not worrying.” ~John Dewey

62.) “Feed your faith and your fear will starve.” – Anonymous

63.) “Of course I doubt. I do not practice a certainty. I practice a faith.” ~Robert Brault

64.) “See the best. Forgive the worst. Forget the bad. Always have faith.” – Melissa Eshleman

65.) “In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.” ~Blaise Pascal

66.) “Be believing, be happy, don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

67.) “Every man should believe in something. If not… he would doubt everything, even himself.” – Toba Beta

68.) “When fear knocks, let faith answer the door.” – Robin Roberts

69.) “By faith, we believe God provides and we hold to the truth that He will not lie.”- Lynn R. Davis

70.) “Sometimes the only means of transportation is a leap of faith.” – Susan J. Decuir

Which faith quotes were your favorites?

Even though life is unpredictable, having faith allows us to access a source of strength and hope that would otherwise not be reachable.

Hopefully, these faith quotes have inspired you to have strong faith that things will go according to plan and encouraged you to fight for your dreams.

Did you enjoy these inspirational faith quotes? Which of the quotes was your favorite? Tell us in the comment section below. Also, if you have any other faith quotes to share with us don’t hesitate to mention.

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85+ Broken Heart Quotes to Prepare You for Moving On

Losing the one you love can be emotionally draining and hard to deal with. There’s no one way of getting over that person–everyone grieves differently. If you’re having feelings of sadness, anger, regret, anxiety or frustration, these all are normal but painful emotions to have during a heartache.

Reading inspiring quotes can help with expressing how you feel and where you want to be next. On your journey of moving on, it’s important to focus on what lies ahead instead of what used to be. We can’t change the past of a relationship but we can certainly plan for the future.

Here are some encouraging broken heart quotes to help you in your process of healing:

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.” – Sarah Teasdale

“I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” – H.C. Paye

“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts

“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either.” – Golda Meir

“You can only lose what you cling to.” – Buddha

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” – Khalil Gibran

“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.” – Barbara de Angelis

“All the broken hearts in the world still beat” – Ingrid Michaelson

“The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carroll Bryant

“Some think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.” – Hermann Hesse

“Sad endings are but the next happy beginning.” – Unknown

“It’s the emptiest, and yet the fullest of all human messages: Good-bye.” – Kurt Vonnegut

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.” – Romain Rolland

“A broken heart is just the growing pains necessary so that you can love more completely when the real thing comes along.” – J.S.B. Morse

“Only time can heal a broken heart.” – Unknown

“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.” – J.M. Barrie

“I’m really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.“ – L.M. Montgomery

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.” — Dalai Lama

“The past can’t hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.” – Alan Moore

“Just because we can’t be together doesn’t mean I don’t love you.” – Blair Waldorf

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.” – Shannon Alder

“If you love something, let it go.” – Unknown

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” – Josh Jameson

“You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.” – Kamand Kojouri

“Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.” – Toba Bet

“Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti

“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Unknown

“Maybe it’s not always about trying to fix something broken. Maybe it’s about starting over and creating something better.”

“You can only move on if you accept that it’s gone.” – Unknown

“I loved him, every inch of his being, but I realized one day; if loving him meant losing me, then loving him was not enough anymore.” – Nikki Rowe

“Trust, let go, and make room for what’s coming.” – Mandy Hale

“Time heals nothing unless you move along with it.” – Unknown

“Life breaks all of us sometimes, but some grow strong at broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.” – William Makepeace Thackeray

“Ever loved someone so much, you would do anything for them? Yeah, well make that someone yourself and do whatever the hell you want.” – Harvey Spencer

“Every happy couple has a breakup in their past.” – Unknown

“To lose a worthless friend is worthy of a testimony.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

“Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe

“You know it’s love when all you want is for that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.” – Julia Roberts

“Being with no one is better than being with the wrong one, because those who fly solo often have the strongest wings.”- Unknown

“Be with someone who knows exactly what they have when they have you. Not someone who will realize it when they’ve lost you.”

“Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger.” – Sarah Evans

“Goodbye is the last time I will hold you near.” – Celine Dion

“With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.” – Federico Chini

“If you’re brave enough to love someone, then you’re strong enough to get over them.” – Unknown

“And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end.” – Elizabeth Eulberg

“Thank you, next.” – Ariana Grande

“I still think of you every day. But I’m trying not to let it hurt me with the same intensity that it used to.” – Ranata Suzuki

“Healing yourself is connected with healing others.” – Yoko Ono

“Every breakup is an opportunity to do it right the next time.” – Cindy Chupack

“Love is the hardest habit to break and the most difficult to satisfy.” – Drew Barrymore

“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley

“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained. “ – Jonathan Harnisch

“Stars can’t shine without darkness.” – Kris Menace

“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”– Gabrielle Zevin

“Being in a relationship has the tendency to deceive one into believing that there is someone without whom one cannot live.”– Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.” – Oscar Wilde

“Every single day, do something that makes your heart sing.” – Marcia Wieder

“Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.” – Len Santos

“In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” – Deepak Chopra

“There are all kinds of ways for a relationship to be tested, even broken, some, irrevocably; it’s the endings we’re unprepared for.” – Katherine Owen

“It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” – Ernie Harwell

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain

“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coehlo

“There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.” – Ashly Lorenzana

“I know my heart will never be the same but I’m telling myself I’ll be okay.” – Sara Evans

“I thought I lost something this summer, but I just realized, I never needed it.” – Nicole Christie

“I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” – Jeffrey McDaniel

“One day they’ll realize they lost a diamond while playing with worthless stones.” – Turcois Ominek

“One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.” – Mandy Hale

“How do you when it’s over? Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.” – Gunnar Ardelius

“Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” – Unknown

“Once in a while you come across someone who will make your life special again.” – Giovannie de Sadeleer

“There comes a point where you no longer care if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You’re just sick of the tunnel.” – Ranata Suzuki

“And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have received.” – Nikki Rowe

“If someone breaks up, it’s an opportunity to revamp yourself; this time better and stronger than before.” – Vikrmn Corpkshetra

“And when a whisper became a begging it was time to move on.” – Veronika Jensen

“The faster you search for a new partner, the faster you will get over your break-up blues…. Love is nothing more than an illusion.” – Aman Jassal

“The lessons are best when the pain is worse” – Misheck Cicero

“After a major change in your life, either you get stuck in painful emotions or you take charge of your life and process your feelings to become emotionally stronger and resilient, the choice is yours.” – Linda Alfiori

“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ”– Joseph Campbell

“A woman (man) is unstoppable once she (he) realizes she (he) deserves better.” – Unknown

“If the hurt comes, so will the happiness.” – Rupi Kaur

“If you really want closure… at some point you have to shut the door.” – Jackie Wells Wunderlin

During this tough time of grieving, seek help from your support system and know that there is always room for a new significant other. Hopefully these quotes served as a gentle reminder that the pain you’re feeling is only temporary and that this event is preparing you for a lot more happiness to come!

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How People Came to Believe Blueberries Are the Healthiest Fruit

Jim,

I don’t like blueberries. Sometimes when I tell people that, they say, “but they have antioxidants!”

If I never eat blueberries, will my life be shorter, or more oxidized than a blueberry lover?

Asking for a friend,

Jaime

Jaime,

I was expecting that my answer would be a simple no, don’t worry about it. And it still is, but the reason is a lot more interesting than I imagined.

In looking at the research, I was surprised that there’s a serious and bizarre amount of interesting evidence in support of eating a lot of blueberries. From things like improving memory to reducing depression to preventing diabetes—I’m not talking about a few studies. There are actually nutrition scientists who have devoted their careers to studying blueberries.

The research includes findings like: Rats who ate blueberries for two months showed improvements in working memory and did better than their peers at remembering how to navigate a water maze. They became better at balancing on a narrow rod and walking on a rotating rod. And lest these findings be dismissed as a coincidence, researchers even cut open the heads of the rats and saw blueberry pigments in their brains. The blue anthocyanins—among the plant chemicals widely attributed with health benefits due to antioxidant properties—scattered throughout the cerebellum, cortex, hippocampus, and striatum of berry-fed rats.

Not everyone is a rat, so in addition to all this rodent research, there are many humans studies. Blueberries have been reported to lower blood pressure after eight weeks of daily ingestion. Kids have been found to do better on cognitive tests after eating blueberries. In small trials, people who drank blueberry juice reported reduced depressive symptoms and were found to have improved-blood sugar levels and improvements in recalling words. Older adults who ate two daily cups of blueberries reportedly saw improvements in mobility.

Is this all real? How did all this research come to be? Aren’t there serious diseases that are chronically under-funded in terms of research? Why are we so heavily invested in blueberries?

On a bleak December day in New Hampshire in 2015, Diane McKay took the stage to explain some of this. She’s a scientists in the Antioxidants Research Laboratory at the Tufts University USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging—which is, it turns out, the origin and epicenter of much of the blueberry work. That day she was addressing industry leaders at the New England Vegetable and Fruit Conference. Her talk was called “Superfruit! Understanding the Health Benefits of Blueberries.”

“The term ‘superfruit’ means different things to different people,” she began. “In marketing, it’s used to advertise a product that has a high level of antioxidant activity. In scientific research, the term is virtually meaningless.”

She explained that claims to superfruit status do often involve antioxidants, the compounds that are believed to minimize the effects of oxidative stress on the body. That is, they negate the negative byproducts of metabolism. The berries aren’t just okay, they’re heroic. They fight evil.

But the measurements are easily manipulated. Various antioxidants can be measured in various ways, and invariably some test will land a given fruit near the top of a rank list. This has led to something like the epidemic of participation trophies among child athletics: Everyone’s a superfruit! McKay advised that the term superfruit “should be used with caution, as it may send the wrong message to consumers, implying they should eat less of all other fruits.”

But if any fruit is deserving of superfruit status, she concluded, it actually may be the blueberry—at least according to the amount of research supporting their intake. Is it really that blueberries are especially super, or that there's just a lot of research on them?  

When I reached out to McKay, she directed me to someone who knows even more about blueberries: her colleague, Barbara Shukitt-Hale. Twenty years ago, Shukitt-Hale was drawn into the blueberry game by chance. An experimental psychologist by training, her Boston lab happened to be next door to that of James Joseph, the Tufts scientist credited with popularizing the idea that variously colored fruits have various health benefits.

“They had a machine where they assayed different foods and looked at their abilities to be antioxidants—their ability to quench oxidative stress,” she explained to me. “They looked at a bunch of fruits and vegetables, and by and large the ones with the darker colors were better antioxidants because the colors are mostly anthocyanins, which are a polyphenol, an antioxidant.”

This was in 1996. Joseph used a new test known as ORAC, or oxygen radical absorbance capacity, to identify the top fruit in terms of antioxidants. It was, you guessed it, blueberries. The fruit scored higher on the test than pomegranate or acai. (The top vegetable was spinach.)

Since then, Shukitt-Hale has been studying the effects of blueberries on the nervous system. “We found they’re doing a lot besides anti-oxidation,” she told me. “They’re also anti-inflammatory. They also have direct effects on the brain, including plasticity and neuronal communication and neurogenesis; they’re involved in the formation of new neurons. They have far-reaching effects.”

This was becoming clear. Her work builds on her late lab-neighbor Joseph’s, who first reported that blueberries can improve memory in aging animals: “Does [our research] guarantee that blueberries will have the same effect in humans?” he wrote in 2003’s The Color Code: A Revolutionary Eating Plan For Optimum Health. “Of course not. But I’m not waiting for the evidence to come in. I’m eating blueberries now. They taste good. And compared to some widely touted ‘anti-aging remedies’ like growth hormone injections, they are considerably safer.”

Earlier this year, Shukitt-Hale and other researchers from Tufts and University of New Mexico, reported in the European Journal of Nutrition that, indeed, “Dietary blueberry improves cognition among older adults.” Again it was a small study. And the effects were only seen when people were fatigued.

Still, she has come to see blueberries as a sort of medicine. She talks about “dietary blueberry” and people being “on blueberry.” Much like a drug trial, the cognitive-function study was a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled study. I asked her how one does a study where a control group doesn’t know they’re eating blueberries. She said they actually eat a blue powder of finely-ground, freeze-dried berries. (The other group gets a similar blue powder that isn’t blueberries.)

But this isn’t optimal, and it raises an important distinction. At some point between blueberry and multivitamin, apparently, people start losing benefits, which suggests that these reported health effects aren’t really all about antioxidants.

“I’m a proponent of eating whole foods,” Shukitt-Hale said. “There’s something about the food matrix in the whole blueberry that I can’t really explain, but it seems like all of it is important. Some compounds in foods that seemed extraneous actually help carry other compounds other places, and once you start isolating them, the sum of the parts is just less than the whole.”

This could explain why anti-oxidant supplements haven’t been found to live up to the benefits of eating a lot of high-antioxidant foods. To that end, Shukitt-Hale recounts a study where her team treated cells with different compounds found in walnuts, another high-antioxidant food. These components had metabolic effects, but at some point the doses became toxic to the cells. When the researchers put actual walnut oil on the cells, though, things were different. Even at levels at which the individual components were toxic, the walnut oil wasn’t.

She takes this sort of finding to mean there’s “something about the whole food that's special.”

But what is special about blueberries?

Shukitt-Hale was surprisingly unconvinced that much is. “I think they’re one of the healthiest fruits,” she said. “But eating a wide range of fruits and vegetables, that’s your best bet.”

So why do some people believe that blueberries are healthy? What about all these studies?

“It may be just because blueberries are one of the more well-studied fruits,” she said. “I don't know if you studied, say, peaches, if it would be the same.”

The fact is that peaches haven’t been studied as intensely as blueberries. Nor have bananas or apples or mangoes. All of that despite the fact that blueberries are among the most recently domesticated crops. Cultivation only really became possible after USDA botanist Frederick Coville’s 1911 discovery that the bushes took to acidic soil, and even still, for decades after, the berries struggled to transcend their something-you-find-in-a-muffin status.

What probably tipped blueberries into the realm of ubiquitous, self-substantiating fruit, Shukitt-Hale told me, was the popular belief in health benefits. And the reason they came together lies in one man: a grey-haired marketing guru named John Sauve.

“He saw the antioxidant studies and wondered if he could use it as a marketing tool,” said Shukitt-Hale. “So he got researchers together to talk about different things they were looking at, and we've been meeting now for 20 years. It was his vision.”

It turns out that Sauve, more than any of the researchers, is responsible for the popular belief in the health benefits of blueberries. From 1993 to 2004, he worked as executive director of the Wild Blueberry Association of North America. He is now with a marketing firm the Food and Wellness Group, where his professional bio explains that he “led the breakthrough health-defining arenas of colorful phytochemical and antioxidants … and first introduced to the marketplace leading to industry changing health-driven awareness and demand for blueberries.”

Sauve is not a scientist, but he has had a long career in food marketing. When he heard about the 1996 antioxidant study, he immediately went to Boston and talked to Joseph and Shukitt-Hale.

“For the most part I didn't understand anything they were talking about,” he told me. Antioxidants was not a household phrase at the time, and the idea that they were integral components of healthy foods was not yet mainstream. But Sauve saw an opening. “I understood that they had found that blueberries produce the highest numbers on the chart. As a marketer, if your product happens to come out first in something, you might want to look into it.”

“It was really at that point when I said we can probably do something with this,” he said.

In the late 1990s, he and the blueberry industry began funding research—through Tufts and elsewhere—that would highlight the health effects of blueberries.

“We took a shot and we invested in it and ended up creating a story with the positioning of blueberries and antioxidants,” he said. In this way he ended up spending very little on advertising, but by 1999 he had gotten global coverage of the studies on blueberries and antioxidants. “We hit this story right. We built it right, we communicated it right, and we got remarkable PR coverage out of it. We ended up with our doctors talking to Oprah and Dr. Oz.”

The first big breakthrough was in Japan, where the wild blueberry industry had been selling around 2 million pounds per year in 1996. By 1999, they sold 30 million pounds, he said. “And it was the health story that changed the perception of the product. The product didn't change at all. People just started adding the perception of health, and this new thing called antioxidants.”

It required a little more work in the U.S., where focus groups told Sauve that people didn’t know what antioxidants were. He remembers one person saying in 1997, “How can anything that’s against oxygen be good for you?”

He shifted the campaign to include not just telling the public that blueberries contained a lot of antioxidants, but that antioxidants were healthy. The centrality of this latter notion to much modern health dogma traces to Sauve’s blueberry information campaign.

“We were the first into the story of the colorful assets of phytochemicals,” he told me, referring to the fact that other fruits and vegetables have adopted the same strategy. “It didn't exist, and so we created it. Of course, we were lucky because we had the word blue right there in our name.”

The investment in research paid off. He sees it as the primary reason that over the last 20 years, the North American blueberry supply has increased from 300 million pounds annually to around one and a half billion.

“There are so many wonderful players involved in this story,” he said. “All the researchers got published. Researchers love to be published, and we helped them do that. We promoted them, and they continued to do all their great work.”

If you have health-related questions, for a friend, please send them to [email protected].

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ionecoffman · 7 years ago

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How People Came to Believe Blueberries Are the Healthiest Fruit

Jim,

I don’t like blueberries. Sometimes when I tell people that, they say, “but they have antioxidants!”

If I never eat blueberries, will my life be shorter, or more oxidized than a blueberry lover?

Asking for a friend,

Jaime

Jaime,

I was expecting that my answer would be a simple no, don’t worry about it. And it still is, but the reason is a lot more interesting than I imagined.

Is this all real? How did all this research come to be? Aren’t there serious diseases that are chronically under-funded in terms of research? Why are we so heavily invested in blueberries?

She takes this sort of finding to mean there’s “something about the whole food that's special.”

But what is special about blueberries?

Shukitt-Hale was surprisingly unconvinced that much is. “I think they’re one of the healthiest fruits,” she said. “But eating a wide range of fruits and vegetables, that’s your best bet.”

So why do some people believe that blueberries are healthy? What about all these studies?

“It may be just because blueberries are one of the more well-studied fruits,” she said. “I don't know if you studied, say, peaches, if it would be the same.”

Sauve is not a scientist, but he has had a long career in food marketing. When he heard about the 1996 antioxidant study, he immediately went to Boston and talked to Joseph and Shukitt-Hale.

“It was really at that point when I said we can probably do something with this,” he said.

In the late 1990s, he and the blueberry industry began funding research—through Tufts and elsewhere—that would highlight the health effects of blueberries.

If you have health-related questions, for a friend, please send them to [email protected].

Article source here:The Atlantic

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fblikeshayaris · 8 years ago

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Most Popular Mother's Day Quotes 2017 - { Mother's Day }

Mother's Day

Mother's Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March or May. It complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Father's Day, Siblings Day, and Grandparents Day.

In the United States, celebration of Mother's Day began in the early 20th century. It is not related to the many celebrations of mothers and motherhood that have occurred throughout the world over thousands of years, such as the Greek cult to Cybele, the Roman festival of Hilaria, or the Christian Mothering Sunday celebration (originally a commemoration of Mother Church, not motherhood). However, in some countries, Mother's Day has become synonymous with these older traditions.

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

— STEVIE WONDER

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

— JEWISH PROVERB

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

— GRACIE ALLEN

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

— ABRAHAM LINCOLN

My mother is a walking miracle.

— LEONARDO DICAPRIO

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

— SOPHOCLES

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

— THEODORE HESBURGH

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

— MILTON BERLE

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

— TENNEVA JORDAN

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.

— MILDRED VERMONT

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

— PETER DE VRIES

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.

— UNKNOWN

All mothers are working mothers.

— UNKNOWN

A mom's hug lasts long after she lets go.

— UNKNOWN

As is the mother, so is her daughter.

— EZEKIEL 16:4

Men are what their mothers made them.

— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

— HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Who is getting more pleasure from this rocking, the baby or me?

— NANCY THAYER

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

— HONORE DE BALZAC

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

— LIN YUTANG

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

— FLORIDA SCOTT-MAXWELL

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

— SOPHIA LOREN

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

— SPANISH PROVERB

Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.

— T. DEWITT TALMAGE

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

— OPRAH WINFREY

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

— ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

— ROBERT BROWNING

Kids don't stay with you if you do it right. It's the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won't be needed in the long run.

— BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

— JODI PICOULT

The phrase 'working mother' is redundant.

— JANE SELLMAN

A mother's arms are more comforting than anyone else's.

— PRINCESS DIANA

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.

— STEPHEN KING

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief that the ability to achieve starts in your mind.

— MICHAEL JORDAN

It's not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.

— DOROTHY, THE GOLDEN GIRLS

You sacrificed for us. You're the real MVP.

— KEVIN DURANT, AWARD ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy.

— TINA FEY

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.

— LADY GAGA

As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'

— CINDY CRAWFORD

[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

— LUPITA NYONG'O

My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.'

— JENNIFER GARNER

She drove me to ballet class…and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that's why this [award] is for her. She's a wonderful mother.

— ELISABETH MOSS

[What's beautiful about my mother is] her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out in the world. She's got a sparkle.

— KATE HUDSON

My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.

— TIM MCGRAW

If I've learned anything as a mom with a daughter who's three, I've learned that you cannot judge the way another person is raising their kid. Everybody is just doing the best they can. It's hard to be a mom.

— MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL

I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn't seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.

— MINDY KALING

My mother has always been my emotional barometer and my guidance. I was lucky enough to get to have one woman who truly helped me through everything.

— EMMA STONE

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

— KATE WINSLET

[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.

— GWYNETH PALTROW

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition.

— MARTHA STEWART

[Motherhood is] heart-exploding, blissful hysteria.

— OLIVIA WILDE

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart—a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

— MARK TWAIN

It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that.

— JUDIT VIORST, ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY

[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary - it's an act of infinite optimism.

— GILDA RADNER

She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great - but how to laugh through it.

— LIZA MINELLIE

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

— HENRY WARD BEECHER

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

— MAXIM GORKY

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

— MARTINA HINGIS

And remember that behind every successful woman is a basket of dirty laundry.

— UNKNOWN

When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.

— ERMA BOMBECK

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

— AMY SEDARIS, I LIKE YOU: HOSPITALITY UNDER THE INFLUENCE

Before becoming a mother I had a hundred theories on how to bring up children. Now I have seven children and only one theory: love them, especially when they least deserve to be loved.

— KATE SAMPERI

Blessed is a mother that would give up part of her soul for her children's happiness.

— SHANNON L. ALDER

Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows, no one else will.

— RICHELLE E. GOODRICH

They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know.

— M.B. ANTEVASIN

My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

— LINDA SUNSHINE

There is nothing as sincere as a mother's kiss.

— SALEEM SHARMA

In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.

— RANDY SUSAN MEYERS, THE MURDERER'S DAUGHTERS

I can imagine no heroism greater than motherhood.

— LANCE CONRAD, THE PRICE OF CREATION

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

— AGATHA CHRISTIE

A good mother loves fiercely but ultimately brings up her children to thrive without her.

— ERIN KELLY, THE BURNING AIR

Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne.

— MABEL HALE

But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins.

— MITCH ALBOM, FOR ONE MORE DAY

My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?

— BARRY DEUTSCH, HOW MIRKA MET A METEORITE

The daughter prays; the mother listens.

— AMANDA DOWNUM, THE DROWNING CITY

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

— MARGUERITE DURAS

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

— JOHN GREEN, AN ABUNDANCE OF KATHERINES

A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

— AMY TAN, THE BONESETTER'S DAUGHTER

She rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

— LOUISA MAY ALCOT, JO'S BOYS

Clarity and focus doesn't always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you.

— SHANNON L. ALDER

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

— MARJORIE HOLMES

Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live in the suffering mothers of every race and creed and weep with them. You long to comfort all who are desolate.

— CHARLOTTE GRAY

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Shadows of a web

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/lJZurTN by Girl_who_likes_to_read Peter is about to end everything after the events of no way home, but on his last patrol he gets hit with an unknown weapon that sends him to a whole other universe with weird bats and birds vigilantes. I'm not that good with summaries but enjoy Words: 1555, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Fandoms: Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Batman - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: Gen Characters: Peter Parker, Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd, Tim Drake (DCU), Duke Thomas, Barbara Gordon, Cassandra Cain, Damian Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth Relationships: Batfamily Members (DCU) & Peter Parker, Dick Grayson & Peter Parker, Peter Parker & Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake (DCU) & Peter Parker, Peter Parker & Duke Thomas, Cassandra Cain & Peter Parker, Peter Parker & Damian Wayne, Barbara Gordon & Peter Parker, Peter Parker & Jason Todd, Peter Parker & Alfred Pennyworth Additional Tags: Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Suicidal Thoughts, Hurt Peter Parker, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, Peter Parker is a Mess, Age Regression/De-Aging, Good Peter Hale, Peter Parker Gets a Hug, Dick Grayson is Nightwing, Good Sibling Dick Grayson, Jason Todd is Red Hood, Jason Todd Deserves Better, POV Multiple, Bruce Wayne is Batman, Bruce Wayne Tries to Be a Good Parent, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Communicating, Tim Drake is Red Robin (DCU), Barbara Gordon is Oracle, Protective Barbara Gordon, Duke Thomas is Signal, Duke Thomas is a Ray of Sunshine, Blood and Violence, Serious Injuries, Damian Wayne is Robin, Damian Wayne is a Little Shit, Damian Wayne Has a Heart, Peter Parker Acts Like a Spider, Good Sibling Cassandra Cain, Cassandra Cain is Batgirl, Alfred Pennyworth is the Best, Peter Parker Has Trust Issues, Probably missing some tags read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/lJZurTN

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Lost Little Wolf

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Hale, Crock, Wayne, then Hale again. Elena's life has never been easy, and she'd be surprised if it started being easy now.

Words: 564, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV), Batman - All Media Types, Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Under the Red Hood, Titans (TV 2018), DCU (Comics)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Major Character Death

Categories: Gen

Relationships: Jason Todd & Original Female Character(s), Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Derek Hale & Original Female Character(s), Bruce Wayne & Original Female Character(s)

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50 Quotes About New Beginnings and Starting Fresh

Our latest collection of quotes about new beginnings that will help you adjust to a new chapter in your life. These new beginnings quotes will motivate you to let go of your past so you can move forward.

Looking to get out of your comfort zone and start your life over? Each one of us reaches a point where we get fed up with our current situation. During such times, letting go and starting over can be the best thing for you.

When you let go of what didn’t work, what held you back previously, or wipe out those fears that don’t deserve to rule you anymore, you create room to become a more passionate, engaged and inspiring individual.

So how can you start over? When creating the life you want, start by clearing out the things you won’t have use for and get your surrounding in order.

If there are habits, relationships, or activities that don’t work for you anymore, it’s best to leave them out of your life altogether. After you’ve made some room, develop some new customs in your life and follow through with them.

Since none of us knows what the future holds, the idea of new beginnings can feel terrifying at times. However, if you focus on that which is optimistic and encouraging, starting afresh can be an exciting time.

Here are some inspirational quotes about new beginnings to give you the strength and courage to adjust to a new chapter in your life.

Quotes about new beginnings and starting fresh

1.) “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” —Seneca

2.) “No one can ever take your memories from you – each day is a new beginning, make good memories every day.” –Catherine Pulsifer

3.) “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

4.) “Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” ~ Carl Bard

5.) “It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

6.) “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting.” –Buddha

7.) “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu

8.) “No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” — C. JoyBell C.

9.) “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

10.) “No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.” – Proverb

Quotes about new beginnings and change.

11.) “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” —Guy Finley

12.) “I discovered that a fresh start is a process. A fresh start is a journey – a journey that requires a plan.” – Vivian Jokotade

13.) “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse

14.) “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” –Plato

15.) “Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.” ~ Muriel Rukeyser

16.) “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” – Meister Eckhart

17.) “You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.” — Barbara Shur

18.) “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour

19.) “Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” — Mandy Hale

20.) “Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn

Quotes about new beginnings to inspire and teach

21.) “Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.” – Catherine Pulsifer

22.) “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot

23.) “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” — Oprah Winfrey

24.) “I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” —Jeffrey McDaniel

25.) “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” –Steve Jobs

26.) “Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.” –Anne Sullivan

27.) “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

28.) “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C. S. Lewis

29.) “Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” – Dale Turner

30.) “Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” –Ralph Blum

New beginnings quotes to help you erase the past

31.) “Let’s forget the baggages of the past and make a new beginning.” – Shahbaz Sharif

32.) “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” – Desmond Tutu

33.) “Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.” – Catherine Pulsifer

34.) “Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.” – Joel Osteen

35.) “No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” – Buddha

36.) “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billie Jean King

37.) “Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

38.) “Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.” –Sarah Ban Breathnach

39.) “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” — Robin Sharma

40.) “Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.” – Marsha Petrie Sue

Other inspirational quotes about new beginnings

41.) “Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.” – Prince

42.) “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – J.P. Morgan

43.) “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” – Alan Cohen

44.) “Let us make each day our birthday – every morning life is new, with the splendors of the sunrise, and the baptism of the dew.” – S.A.R

45.) “Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma

46.) “One can begin so many things with a new person – even begin to be a better man.” – George Eliot

47.) “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein

48.) “Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

49.) “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” — Kristin Kreuk

50.) “Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new.” – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

How did you find these new beginnings quotes?

Sometimes life requires us to start over and rebuild from scratch. In order, to create the life you want, you have to be willing to let go of what isn’t working or what’s holding you back.

But because you do not know what’s written in your next chapter of life, the idea of starting afresh can be intimidating. Hopefully, these new beginnings quotes have given you the courage to start over and reboot your life for the better.

Did you enjoy these quotes about new beginnings? Which of the quotes was your favorite? Tell us in the comment section below. We would love to hear all about it.

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50 Quotes About New Beginnings and Starting Fresh

Our latest collection of quotes about new beginnings on Everyday Power.

So how can you start over? When creating the life you want, start by clearing out the things you won’t have use for and get your surrounding in order. If there are habits, relationships, or activities that don’t work for you anymore, it’s best to leave them out of your life altogether. After you’ve made some room, develop some new customs in your life and follow through with them.