#desi

Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday! Roxanne Catherine Mapp ↗

— Roxanne Catherine Mapp

#designing-women #immigrant #island #poetry #trinidad-tobago

I inherited a pound from my British uncle. I’d have rather gotten a dollar, because what do I want with an animal shelter?
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— Jarod Kintz

#animal-shelter #british #death #desire #die

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#duty #eternity #laugh #others #rejoice

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so. ↗

— Coventry Patmore

#fulfilling #god #incredible #more #prompt

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#desires #flourished #good #held #humanity

No state, furthermore, unless it has aggressive military designs such as those which consumed Nazi leaders in the thirties, is likely to divert to defense any more of its resources and wealth and energy than seems necessary. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#any #consumed #defense #designs #divert

So that’s our approach. Very simple, and we’re really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we’re running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let’s make it simple. Really simple.” Apple’s design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#kiss #simple #art

Design can change how you look at yourself. ↗

— Ty Pennington

#design #how #look #you #yourself

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. ↗

— Charles Pierce

#desire #even #find #intelligent #may

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. ↗

— Plutarch

#belongs #desirable #glory #indeed #our