#cult

The Japanese say, If the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated. ↗

— Lester Cole

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People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the "text" in literary terms. ↗

— Tony Conrad

#called #cultural #formal #forms #full

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession. ↗

— Caroline B. Cooney

#considered #difficult #i #i love #know

Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities. ↗

— Sam Dash

#because #could #difficult #fired #getting

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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Those who produce should have, but we know that those who produce the most - that is, those who work hardest, and at the most difficult and most menial tasks, have the least. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

#hardest #know #least #menial #most

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are. ↗

— David Dinkins

#be happy #communications #country #culture #finance

It's so difficult. Sometimes if I have dessert, I think, 'Well, I blew it.' That's something I need to work on and control. But still there's nothing like a buffet. ↗

— Donna Dixon

#buffet #control #dessert #difficult #i

The awakening of a new basic attitude towards existence is not the first thing that we must do, but the first thing that must happen in us... Only when this completely irrational, above - moral, and above - personal transformation has taken place inside of us will all instructions given here gain a sense. There is no directive and no rule which could replace this unique act or could be compared with it. ↗

— Ernst Schertel

#occult #attitude

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#belong #cultivate #cultivating #doing #doing good