#circles

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles. ↗

— Stanley Jordan

#circles #genius #musical #often #too

France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#circles #deaf #demands #ear #france

It's okay to spin around and around in the same place. Just so long as you're singing your heart out. THAT's what life's all about. ↗

— Chica Umino

#circles #honey-and-clover #inspirational #locusts #inspirational

Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things. ↗

— Philip Slater

#commercialism #economy #endless-circles #failed-systems #greed

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#courage #fortitude #strength #valor #courage

That second man has his own way of looking at things; asks himself which debt must I pay first, the debt to the rich, or the debt to the poor? the debt of money, or the debt of thought to mankind, of genius to nature? For you, O broker! there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys. Let me live onward; you shall find that, though slower, the progress of my character will liquidate all these debts without injustice to higher claims. If a man should dedicate himself to the payment of notes, would not this be injustice? Does he owe no debt but money? And are all claims on him to be postponed to a landlord's or a banker's? ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#debts #priorities #faith

I want to highlight once again that when we talk about the fight against terrorism and the circles around it and when we talk about ensuring the safety and the peace of all, we are not talking about fantasies. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#again #against #around #circles #ensuring

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#circles #drinks #house #may #ocean

Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles. ↗

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

#cannot #circles #escape #how #matter

I never knew the difference between loving someone and being in love,” he began. “I don’t know why, because now it seems so obvious. I mean, it’s in the name: in love. When you love someone that just means you care; but when you’re in love, that means you’re a part of it.” He scanned the audience and landed on Paxton and Jade holding hands in the third row. “The feeling consumes you,” he continued. “And when you’re surrounded by that want and that need to make that other person happy, you can’t see anything else. You’re blind to all of the hate and the hurt that’s waiting on the outside. None of it matters, because in here – in love – nothing hurts.” Larson watched as a drop of his own tears fell onto the surface in front of him. “I don’t care if I’m blind for the rest of my life. I loved Owen. I’m in love with him. And even though he’s gone, I’ll never leave this place we made. ↗

— Megan Duke

#larson #larson-and-owen #megan-duke #small-circles #love