#collect

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? ↗

— Norman Douglas

#platitudes #save #wisdom

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#church #collection #conversations #heads #keeping

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#nostalgia #recollection #love

There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their spare time, by collecting stamps, coins, medals, vases, postcards, matchboxes, books, clocks, sport shirts, autographs, stones, clay figurines, empty beverage cans, little angels, cacti, opera programmes, lighters, pens, owls, music boxes, bottles, bonsai trees, paintings, mugs, pipes, glass obelisks, ceramic ducks, old toys, carnival masks, and they probably do so out of something that we might call metaphysical angst, perhaps because they cannot bear the idea of chaos being the one ruler of the universe, which is why, using their limited powers and with no divine help, they attempt to impose some order on the world, and for a short while they manage it, but only as long as they are there to defend their collection, because when the day comes when it must be dispersed, and that day always comes, either with their death or when the collector grows weary, everything goes back to its beginnings, everything returns to chaos. ↗

— José Saramago

#collecting #death #hobbies #order #death

I’ve been asking you to marry me since we met! What more do you want? ↗

— Chayada Welljaipet

#eternal-love #romance #romance-love #romance-novel #romance-novels

I believe in the power of love, and planting positive thought seeds into the collective consciousness. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#consciousness #planting #positive #power-of-love #seeds

Ir katram roka jāpieliek, lai lielais darbs uz priekšu iet! ↗

— Rainis

#inspirational #inspirational

I still buy nice pieces but, at the moment, they're presents for other people, so I only collect vicariously. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#collect #i #moment #nice #only

I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it. ↗

— Edmund Barton

#conducted #connection #fort #given #i

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver. ↗

— William Bartram

#almighty #blessings #creator #favours #gratitude