#ali

One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#ago #day #five #good #had

'What is the use of a book', thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations?' ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#book #conversations #pictures #thought #use

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. ↗

— Angela Carter

#angels #culture #high #higher #i

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick. ↗

— Angela Carter

#confidence #experience #female #human #human experience

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#about #composer #copland #felt #had

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#am #calling #doll #edwardian #features

Individuality or Unity? I say there's room for both. ↗

— Brian Celio

#i #individuality #room #say #unity

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#compassion #learning #politics #relegion #spirituality

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#end #get #his #man #only

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#life #personality #understanding #life