#ass

You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end. ↗

— Karel Capek

#bright #burning #each #end #flame

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#being #causes #class #feels #luxury

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works. ↗

— John Updike

#assumed #century #generally #had #his

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#ask #go #never #passions #realistic

One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that. ↗

— George Carey

#believe #committed #course #found #gospel

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#authenticity #good #good story #greatest #inward

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#end #life #only #passion

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#emancipation #laws #passed #prohibiting #restricting

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google. ↗

— Edward Felten

#big #big thing #classrooms #dreaming #founders

By revealing to Tomas her dream about jabbing needles under her fingernails, Tereza unwittingly revealed that she had gone through his desk. If Tereza had been any other woman, Tomas would never have spoken to her again. Aware of that, Tereza said to him, Throw me out! But instead of throwing her out, he seized her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers, because at that moment he himself felt the pain under her fingernails as surely as if the nerves of her fingers led straight to his own brain. Anyone who has failed to benefit from the Devil’s gift of compassion (co-feeling) will condemn Tereza coldly for her deed, because privacy is sacred and drawers containing intimate correspondence are not to be opened. But because compassion was Tomas’s fate (or curse), he felt that he himself had knelt before the open desk drawer, unable to tear his eyes from Sabina’s letter. He understood Tereza, and not only was he incapable of being angry with her, he loved her all the more. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#empathy #love #dreams