#city

New York is the concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertainment and finance, bringing to a single compact arena the gladiator, the evangelist, the promoter, the actor, the trader and the merchant. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky. ↗

— E.B. White

#art

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable. Wisdom, it seems to me, is always poised upon the knowledge of minimums; it might be thought to be the art of minimums. Granting the frailty, and no doubt the impermanence, of modern technology as a human contrivance, the man who can keep a fire in a stove or on a hearth is not only more durable, but wiser, closer to the meaning of fire, than the man who can only work a thermostat. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#simplicity #art

Enthusiasm is the electricity of life. How do you get it? You act enthusiastic until you make it a habit. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#enthusiasm #habits #life #life

Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#simplicity #life

Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#simplicity #life

When we are depleted our giving is empty. Today I take a moment to recharge, fill up with love for my life and all of its character so that I may give from a place of overflowing. ↗

— Lisa Wimberger

#mindfulness #neuroplasticity #spiritual-growth #inspirational

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane. ↗

— Bruce Robinson

#insanity #madness #money #poverty #money

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy ↗

— Isaac Newton

#philosophy #simplicity #wisdom #nature

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#new-york-city #new-york-city

There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once. ↗

— Taylor Hanson

#new-york-city