#cons

If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you ever develop the sense of pride and proprietorship that comes from maintaining an object in fine working order? We invest something of ourselves in our material world, which in turn reflects who we are. In the era of disposability that plastic has helped us foster, we have increasingly invested ourselves in objects that have no real meaning in our lives. We think of disposable lighters as conveniences -- which they indisputably are; ask any smoker or backyard-barbecue chef -- and yet we don't think much about the tradeoffs that that convenience entails. ↗

— Susan Freinkel

#environment #plastic #sustainability #love

I have fallen in love to the sound of the Sun decending on the horizon, Ony to have my heart broken by the stars. ↗

— C L A R I T Y

#love

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

Ma il coraggio era anche quello. Era la consapevolezza che l'insuccesso fosse comunque il frutto di un tentativo. Che talvolta è meglio perdersi sulla strada di un viaggio impossibile che non partire mai. ↗

— Giorgio Faletti

#coraggio #love #partire #travel #viaggio

Find the Key ! Find the Key ! If you want to open the Doors of Heaven ! Without which, you can at best, look from outside, like the pauper looking in through the window at your food when hungry. Find the Key ! ↗

— AainaA-Ridtz

#future #heaven #inspirational #life #love

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#inspirational #spiritual-quotes #inspirational

I'd discovered that he sun equated happiness. Its bright and lovely existence was hope incarnate. It exposed the dark, brought forth the light and showed you that no matter how strong or oppressive the night was, that it was infinitely stronger, exponentially more substantial and just because you couldn't see it with your eyes, didn't mean it wasn't still with you. it was stalwart and constant. It was infinite. ↗

— Fisher Amelie

#infinite #inspirational #strength #sun #inspirational

Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each other. I don’t support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative. ↗

— David Cameron

#conservatives #gay-marriage #society #support #vows

To restrict or legalize abortion, to allow or forbid gay marriage, a legislator would need to write and pass a law, get it signed by the president or a governor, and perhaps override a veto. A Supreme Court justice need only persuade four other people. If he or she is not internally constrained by the authority of a text, he or she is not constrained. ↗

— Michael J. Gerson

#politics #politics-of-the-united-states #same-sex-marriage #scotus #united-states

In the voyage of your worldly existence, the sails at which your life float upon, are tethered by the thoughts and emotions that which you harbor. Expand. ↗

— Will Barnes

#inspirational #personal-development #spiritual #inspirational