#ch

The roots of the tarot have been lost forever and if we are to experience any sense of continuity we must turn to its appearance as an esoteric device. ↗

— Charles Ponce

#experience

The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#the-alchemist #inspirational

Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

#built #courses #doing #etc #golf

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books. ↗

— William Nicholson

#bookshelves #boxes #cardboard #converted #filled

It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#been #both #coin #confidence #credit

I know I will be breaking a taboo. But I'm sure that it will provoke a new discussion. It's time things change. I feel 30 and want to look that way again. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#breaking #change #discussion #feel #i

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achievement #final #incongruity #life #requires

As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#artist #choice #dare #freedom #inside

I absolutely refuse the fame part of my business. I refuse even the money side of my business. I try to do as good work as I can do, I try to grow in my art and reach for truth. That's what I want from my art, that's what I aspire to. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#art #aspire #business #even #fame

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955) ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#inspirational #wisdom #inspirational