#do

In the search for understanding and awakening we are drawn to those teachings that convey the deepest wisdom with the greatest beauty. ↗

— Frances Vaughn Roger Walsh

#spiritual-journey #wisdom #beauty

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#defence #destruction #doubtless #effected #function

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down. ↗

— Chris Tucker

#down #every #every day #get #golf

Das Geheimnis des Glücks ist die Freiheit. Das Geheimnis der Freiheit aber ist der Mut. ↗

— Pericles

#freedom #luck #courage

...You bring out the truth in me, Callista, and make me whole. I need you to set me free and give me the courage to be as strong as you are. I love you... ↗

— Catherine LaRoche

#dom #master-of-love #courage

But the boredom of Frau Spatz had by now reached that pitch where it distorts the countenance of man, makes the eyes protrude from the head, and lends the features a corpselike and terrifying aspect. More than that, this music acted on the nerves that controlled her digestion, producing in her dyspeptic organism such malaise that she was really afraid she would have an attack. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#corpselike #malaise #music

Sebastian looked alarmed at her stiffness, but Eric took it in and chuckled. "Riding astride would have been easier," he said. "You put twice the strain on yourself with that unnatural position." "Oh, I know," she replied with a grimace. "Every muscle told me about it this morning, and I actually DID have a hot soak before I went to bed." Sebastian looked blankly at the two of them for a moment, then blinked and looked relieved. "Oh, you're saddle sore! I'm sorry-- ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#bella #eric #five-hundred-kingdoms #humor #mercedes-lackey

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #good-taste #literature #literature-quotes #poetry

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#cheap #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #poetry

Todas las disparidades del mundo, las diversas alas de la paradoja, las dos caras del problema, las preguntas de deshojar la margarita, la concienca con forma de tijera, todas las polaridades, las cosas y sus imágenes y las cosas que no proyectan sombras y, sencillamente, las explosiones cotidianas de una calle, esta cara y aquélla, una casa y un dolor de muelas, explosiones que sólo tienen, en su nombre, letras diferentes, mi aguja todo lo atraviesa, y yo mismo, mis ávidas fantasías, todo lo que ha existido y hoy existe, somos parte de un collar de imcomprensible belleza y falta de sentido. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#todo #beauty